SSRS: Get Dates from Report Into Header Text Boxes - reporting-services

My Dataset has Variables #StartDate and #EndDate that I use to describe a Date Range of the Previous Month.
I Cast () both Date variables as Varchar - E.g. Cast(#StartDate As Varchar(10)) As StartDate and then include StartDate and EndDate in my Final Output.
The Report Body/Detail has StartDate and EndDate fields included but Not Visible.
In the Header of the Report, I have a Text Box in which I have the Expression:
=ReportItems!StartDate.Value
When I run the report, I get the following Warning - and nothing shows in the Test Box in the Header.
Warning [rsInvalidExpressionDataType] The Value expression used in textrun 'StartDate.Paragraphs[0].TextRuns[0]' returned a data type that is not valid.
When I make the two Date fields in the Report Visible, I see that the Values in there are all "#Error". This part is puzzling ... as the two fields SSMS show the dates in '2021-04-20' format.
One thing I should mention. The working report was created using an earlier version of Visual Studio. I am currently using VS 2017 to create this new report.
I would appreciate any help I can get.
Sincerely!

I found the answer in another thread that I hadn't found before. Sorry. The suggestion was to delete the rdl.Data file for the Report. Worked like a charm. Again, apologies that I didn't find that suggestion before I posted my question.

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Argument data type nvarchar is invalid for argument 3 of convert function in SSRS

I am having an issue with a parameter and the convert function when executing my query in Report Builder.
I am having the following in my code:
CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), COALESCE(Status.POBDate, Status.[Sched Collection Date]),(#DateFormat)) AS [Collection Date]
,CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), Status.[Act Del Date],(#DateFormat)) AS [Delivery Date]
The (#DateFormat) parametner has data type Integer and available values as per the bild below.
The funny thing is that I can run the query in SSMS without any problem, but when trying to apply some adjustments in Report Builder, and save the report, it is complaining about the invalind argument even though, the parament (#DateFormat) was not edited anyhow. The report worked perfect online and only after opening it in Report Builder it started to complain also when I do not apply any new adjustments.
Any idea what can be wrong and how I could solve it?
I have checked some ideas here on stackoverflow, but nothing worked out so far.
Tones of thanks in advance!
Your parameter type is text not integer and that causes the error.
You can verify it by casting the DateFormat parameter to INTEGER in your SQL code
CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), COALESCE(Status.POBDate, Status.[Sched Collection Date]),CAST(#DateFormat AS INTEGER)) AS [Collection Date]
As a suggestion use the parameter to format the dates inside the report.
How to do it:
Remove conversion from your SQL code
In your parameter set it to text and as values set the date format string
For US ="dd/MM/yyyy"
For UK ="MM/dd/yyyy"
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assuming that your parameter names are :
#startdate, #enddate,#segment
Get a list of distinct segment values for your segment dataset.
For that you need to do something like the following
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set your query for the segment parameter list to the following (something similar of course)
select distinct
segmentcolumn
from segmenttable
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I copied below code in the Edit as Formula window
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/d2dd4521-fedd-4501-a675-1ec3b4b87989
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Hope this helps.