Hi all

I have a my date as ' yyyymm' in the model query item(database ). e.g entrydate.

My filter is like this.

[entrydate] >= ?P_ENTRYDATE?

Obviously it does not work QE-DEF-0387 Invalid format for numeric prompt 'P_ENTRYDATE'.Could you please
advise on how to cast/convert the Date Prompt value from Date to 201010 format and where to use it.

Please help.

Thanks,
Nandini

Hi try this
parameter1 is parameter of Date prompt

Create a query calculation new_Date as

cast(extract(year,?Parameter1?),char(4))+cast(extract(month,?Parameter1?),char(2))

then disabled the filter on your date and add this

Your Date column=New_date

only check with the values for the month like its 201105 or 20115 my solution wil work
for 20115.
if its 201105 then u have make some extra efforts as

create Year ->cast(extract(year,?Parameter1?),char(4))

create Month as->

If(extract(month,?Parameter1?) >10) then
(cast(extract(month,?Parameter1?),char(4)))
else
('0'+cast(extract(month,?Parameter1?),char(4)))

then create New_Date as [Year]+[Date]

then apply the same filter

Your Date column=New_date
hi prince as per your solution (then disabled the filter on your date) which filter to disable. i dont have any filter for
date.

No just mean to say if u currently have added any filter on ur date column for filtering then disable it.else u can
skip this step.
Try and let me Know

Hi prince

I have a 'AND/OR' propmt in between the 2 date propmts which have the case statement as shown below.

case when (?Parameter AND-OR?)='AND'

then ((1 in_range ?P_ENTRDATE? OR [entrydate ]in_range ?P_ENTRDATE?) AND

(1 in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE? OR
[entrydate] in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE?))

else
((1 in_range ?P_ENTRYDATE? OR [entrydate] in_range ?P_BOOKING_ENTRY_MONTH?) OR

(1 in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE? OR
[entrydate] in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE?))

end

when i disable this filter iam not getting errors but mismatch of data. but when i enable it iam getting multilpe
errors.
dont knw wat exactly is the problem. pl guide me

Hi,
Try to cast the new_date column which we derived from date prompt to integer As Cast([Year]+[Date], Integer).
then keep
old filter as [entrydate] >= New_date

then enable Ur 'AND/OR' filter.

Thanks .
Hi prince
i have 2 date prompts, 1 is 'entry date prompt' and other is 'trans date prompt'. my report data depends on And/Or
selection prompt between these two date prompts.

little modification in the below case statement pl have a look and guide me further. there are 2 different data items
on which 2 different respective prompts depends(P_ENTRDATE >> entrydate, ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE? >>
transdate).

case when (?Parameter AND-OR?)='AND'

then ((1 in_range ?P_ENTRDATE? OR [entrydate ]in_range ?P_ENTRDATE?) AND

(1 in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE? OR
[transdate] in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE?))

else
((1 in_range ?P_ENTRYDATE? OR [entrydate] in_range ?P_BOOKING_ENTRY_MONTH?) OR

(1 in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE? OR
[transdate] in_range ?P_TRANSACTION_DATE?))

end

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Cast date to string, want MM/DD/YYYY formatting (Read 3728

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Re: Cast date to string, want MM/DD/YYYY formatting

Have a column where the DOB was cast to a varchar. Want to hide certain birthdays so
XX/XX/XXXX shows under certain circumstances. When the cast to varchar was done it formatted
the date as 1994-02-03. I want the date formatted as MM/DD/YYYY. Is there a FORMAT
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