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
}
			else
			{
				params.put( paramName, null );
			}
		}
		return params;
	}
	/**
	 * get parameter object.
	 * 
	 * @param request
	 *            HttpServletRequest
	 * @param parameter
	 *            ScalarParameterHandle
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	protected String getParamValueAsString( HttpServletRequest request,
			ScalarParameterHandle parameter )
	{
		String paramName = parameter.getName( );
		String paramValue = null;
		if ( ParameterAccessor.isReportParameterExist( request, paramName ) )
		{
			
			paramValue = ParameterAccessor.getReportParameter( request,
					paramName, null );
			return paramValue;
		}