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
String format = getParameter( request, PARAM_FORMAT );
		if ( format != null && format.length( ) > 0 )
		{
			if ( PARAM_FORMAT_HTM.equalsIgnoreCase( format ) )
				return PARAM_FORMAT_HTML;
			return format;
		}
		return PARAM_FORMAT_HTML; 
	}
	/**
	 * Get preview max rows.
	 * 
	 * @param request
	 *            http request
	 * @return max rows
	 */
	public static int getMaxRows( HttpServletRequest request )
	{
		int curMaxRows = ParameterAccessor.getParameterAsInt( request,
				PARAM_MAXROWS );
		if ( curMaxRows <= 0 )
			curMaxRows = maxRows;
		return curMaxRows;
	}
	/**
	 * Get report element's iid.
	 * 
	 * @param request
	 * @return report element's iid
	 */