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/context/ViewerAttributeBean.java
* Prepare the report parameters
	 */
	protected void __initParameters( HttpServletRequest request )
			throws Exception
	{
		this.reportDesignHandle = getDesignHandle( request );
		InputOptions options = new InputOptions( );
		options.setOption( InputOptions.OPT_REQUEST, request );
		options.setOption( InputOptions.OPT_LOCALE, locale );
		options.setOption( InputOptions.OPT_RTL, new Boolean( rtl ) );
		
		Collection parameterList = getParameterList( );
		
		if ( this.isDesigner
				&& !IBirtConstants.SERVLET_PATH_FRAMESET
						.equalsIgnoreCase( request.getServletPath( ) ) )
			parseConfigVars( request, parameterList );
		
		this.parametersAsString = getParsedParametersAsString( parameterList,
				request, options );
		
		this.parameterDefList = getReportService( ).getParameterDefinitions(
				this.reportDesignHandle, options, false );
		
		if ( documentInUrl )
			this.missingParameter = false;
		else
			this.missingParameter = validateParameters( parameterDefList,
					this.parametersAsString );