Date parameter

My report has a StartDate and a EndDate parameters. I use the datetime
parameter type, and the input textbox shows both the date and time portions.
How to show only the date portion in the parameter textbox? By the way, is it
possible to have something like a datetime picker to get the date parameter?
The textbox control is not user-friendly.When you specify the parameter as date time, both with display although the
user may enter only the date or the time, with the remaing defaulting to the
min...
Some folks will use a string parameter instead...
You could populate the dates from a table in the database... But using a
date picker, you'd have to put an html page in front of the report and
include the date picker in that, then call the report from a web service.
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"Matthew Chow" <Matthew Chow@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My report has a StartDate and a EndDate parameters. I use the datetime
> parameter type, and the input textbox shows both the date and time
portions.
> How to show only the date portion in the parameter textbox? By the way, is
it
> possible to have something like a datetime picker to get the date
parameter?
> The textbox control is not user-friendly.|||On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:47:02 -0800, Matthew Chow <Matthew
Chow@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>My report has a StartDate and a EndDate parameters. I use the datetime
>parameter type, and the input textbox shows both the date and time portions.
>How to show only the date portion in the parameter textbox? By the way, is it
>possible to have something like a datetime picker to get the date parameter?
>The textbox control is not user-friendly.
DatePicker is rather "too much" to ask :))
As of date parameters, to avoid confusion among end-users with all
that extra time info, just use a string parameter with a prompt like
"Start Date (mm/dd/yyyy):" The proposed format should match the
locale of your server, so even foreign users (if you have any) won't
make mistakes. Then in your query use somethig like this:
WHERE MyTable.MyDate >= CONVERT(datetime, @.pStartDate)
If they enter something invalid, they will get a SQL error, like
"unable to convert to a datetime". This approach is less efficient,
because user's input is being validated on the database level, not on
the web page level, but at the same time provides a much cleaner way
for the users by avoiding confusion. We are now using this everywhere.|||Thanks for helping.sql