Formatting DATE parameters for display

zax

Hello,<br />
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I have a report with a user entered date parameter, which I also want to have in the resulting report. To do this I use a dynamic text box and the following code:<br />
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<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>BirtDateTime.year(params["StartDate"].value) + "-" + BirtDateTime.month(params["StartDate"].value) + "-" + BirtDateTime.day(params["StartDate"].value)</pre>
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But this feels very clumsy, and the months are not formatted how I would like. Is there a better way of formatting a date parameter?<br />
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Many Thanks,<br />
Stephen

mwilliams

Hi Stephen,

You should be able to just display your parameter in a data element and use the dateFormat in the property editor to format the date how you'd like.

Hope this helps.