Bug 147558 Passing date parameters to drill-through reports
Due to the date/time format, I can't pass a date parameter to a drill-through report. The date/time input requires that the user enters the date in a very specific format otherwise, the viewer does not recognize it as a valid date. Therefore, I set my text box to be have the date/time format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' which is user-friendly. When I bind the param to the drill-through report, it passes 'Jan 1, 20006 22:33' or something in that order. Then the report that was being called returns that it is not a valid date. There is no function to format a date object to a specific format (or that I could find).
viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/classes/org/eclipse/birt/report/utility/ParameterAccessor.java
{
					paramValue = value;
				}
				paramName = urlEncode( paramName, ISO_8859_1_ENCODE );
				paramValue = urlEncode( paramValue, UTF_8_ENCODE );
				queryString += ( isFirst ? "" : PARAMETER_SEPARATOR ) + paramName + EQUALS_OPERATOR + paramValue; 
				isFirst = false;
			}
		}
		if ( nullParams != null && nullParams.size( ) > 0 )
		{
			Iterator i = nullParams.iterator( );
			while ( i.hasNext( ) )
			{
				String paramName = (String) i.next( );
				if ( paramName != null && !paramName.equalsIgnoreCase( name ) )
				{
					paramName = urlEncode( paramName, UTF_8_ENCODE );
					queryString += ( isFirst ? "" : PARAMETER_SEPARATOR ) + PARAM_ISNULL + EQUALS_OPERATOR + paramName;  
					isFirst = false;
				}
			}
		}
		if ( name != null && name.length( ) > 0 ) 
		{
			if ( getParameter( request, name ) == null )
			{
				String paramValue = value;
				paramValue = urlEncode( paramValue, UTF_8_ENCODE );
				queryString += ( isFirst ? "" : PARAMETER_SEPARATOR ) + name + EQUALS_OPERATOR + paramValue;