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
reportDocumentInstance.close( );
		}
		
		if ( reportRunnable == null )
		{
			try
			{
				
				File file = new File( this.reportDesignName );
				if ( file.exists( ) )
				{
					reportRunnable = ReportEngineService.getInstance( )
							.openReportDesign( this.reportDesignName );
				}
				else if ( !ParameterAccessor.isWorkingFolderAccessOnly( ) )
				{
					
					
					this.reportDesignName = ParameterAccessor.getParameter(
							request, ParameterAccessor.PARAM_REPORT );
					InputStream is = request.getSession( ).getServletContext( )
							.getResourceAsStream( this.reportDesignName );
					reportRunnable = ReportEngineService.getInstance( )
							.openReportDesign( is );
				}
			}
			catch ( EngineException e )
			{
				this.exception = e;
			}