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 sHtmlEncoded = ""; 
		if ( s == null )
		{
			return null;
		}
		StringBuffer sbHtmlEncoded = new StringBuffer( );
		final char chrarry[] = s.toCharArray( );
		for ( int i = 0; i < chrarry.length; i++ )
		{
			char c = chrarry[i];
			switch ( c )
			{
				case '\t' :
					sbHtmlEncoded.append( "&#09;" ); 
					break;
				case '\n' :
					sbHtmlEncoded.append( "<br>" ); 
					break;
				case '\r' :
					sbHtmlEncoded.append( "&#13;" ); 
					break;
				case ' ' :
					sbHtmlEncoded.append( "&#32;" ); 
					break;
				case '"' :
					sbHtmlEncoded.append( "&#34;" ); 
					break;
				case '\'' :
					sbHtmlEncoded.append( "&#39;" ); 
					break;