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
ParameterAccessor.initParameters( config.getServletContext( ) );
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Initial the parameters class. Web.xml is in UTF-8 format. No need to do
	 * encoding convertion.
	 * 
	 * @param context
	 *            Servlet Context
	 */
	public synchronized static void initParameters( ServletContext context )
	{
		if ( isInitContext )
			return;
		
		workingFolder = context.getInitParameter( INIT_PARAM_REPORT_DIR );
		if ( workingFolder == null || workingFolder.trim( ).length( ) <= 0 )
		{
			
			workingFolder = context.getRealPath( "/" ); 
		}
		
		
		if ( workingFolder != null
				&& workingFolder.trim( ).endsWith( File.separator ) )
		{
			workingFolder = workingFolder.trim( ).substring( 0,
					workingFolder.trim( ).length( ) - 1 );
		}