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
filePath = preProcess( filePath );
		filePath = createAbsolutePath( filePath );
		return filePath;
	}
	/**
	 * Get report document name.
	 * 
	 * @param request
	 *            http request
	 * @return report file name
	 * @throws AxisFault
	 */
	public static String getReportDocument( HttpServletRequest request )
	{
		String filePath = getParameter( request, PARAM_REPORT_DOCUMENT );
		filePath = preProcess( filePath );
		if ( "".equals( filePath ) ) 
		{
			filePath = generateDocumentFromReport( request );
			filePath = createDocumentPath( filePath, request );
		}
		else
		{
			filePath = createAbsolutePath( filePath );
		}
		return filePath;
	}
	/**
	 * Create the file path of the the document. The document will be put under
	 * the working folder birt document directory based on different session id.