using java script in report

soumyadeep

Hi

I am new in BIRT report development.
i have one java script that i have to use convert some string timestamp to a human readable date-time.
How i do that.
any link to any resource/tutorial also welcome.

JMaleski

Inside your text object, you can format the date object like this:

<value-of format="MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm a">new Date()</value-of>

Or you can simply reference a variable like this:

<value-of> VariableName </value-of>

If you do the second method, be sure that you are declaring your variable in the initialize event of the report so that it exists everywhere (like a global variable).