By default no date field is set when you enter the Rental Report Screen. You can use a script to change this. A customer just requested a way to make the Enter Date the default date field. To do this you start a new script in the User Defined Scripts Screen using "Housing" as the Module, "RentRep" as the Screen and "Screen" as the Action. The script itself would be:
rentrep.date_type="ent_date"
rentrep.cmbUsedate.value = "Enter Date"
Now when you first enter the Rental Report Screen the Enter Date will be shown as the default date type.