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
Object paramValueObj = null;
		if ( this.isDesigner
				&& ( IBirtConstants.SERVLET_PATH_RUN.equalsIgnoreCase( request
						.getServletPath( ) ) || IBirtConstants.SERVLET_PATH_PARAMETER
						.equalsIgnoreCase( request.getServletPath( ) ) )
				&& this.configMap != null
				&& this.configMap.containsKey( paramName ) )
		{
			
			paramValueObj = this.configMap.get( paramName );
		}
		else if ( this.parameterMap != null
				&& this.parameterMap.containsKey( paramName ) )
		{
			
			paramValueObj = this.parameterMap.get( paramName );
			
			paramValueObj = ParameterValidationUtil.getDisplayValue( null,
					parameter.getPattern( ), paramValueObj, locale );
		}
		if ( paramValueObj != null )
			paramValue = paramValueObj.toString( );
		return paramValue;
	}
	/**
	 * get parsed parameters as string.
	 * 
	 * @param parameterList
	 *            Collection
	 * @param request