SSRS: Use SQL Query in the place of a parameter - reporting-services

I am trying to create an SSRS subscription. And for my StartDate and EndDate time parameters, I would like to have "Start from the Sunday before last, and continue to last Saturday evening" i.e today is 01/04/2017 so StartDate = '2017-12-24 00:00:00.000' and the EndDate = '2017-12-30 23:59:59.997'.
These dates are the product of the following statements.
DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk, -1,GetDate()), -8)
DateAdd(ms, 86399997, DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk, -1,GetDate()), -2))
However, whenever I try to drop these strings into the Subscription maker UI, it just batts it away and puts a date into the field.
Does anyone know how to put an evaluatable query into parameter fields?
Any help is greatly appreciated

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SSRS - Set param to be the time right now but on a different date

I was asked to create an SSRS Report, but taking the live sales of today and compare it to sales the exact same time as a date to be named later. For example, "How are we doing compared to this time on last Saturday?" The user would simply pick the date, and the query would calculate sales for both Today() and #BusinessDate, from the start of the business until Today()'s time.
I am sure I can do the query, but I don't know how to set a query parameter for this.
Please note, Today() and Now() throw errors, but GETDATE() works fine.
Got it:
SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR(8), #BusinessDate, 112) + ' ' + CONVERT(CHAR(8), GETDATE(), 108))

SSRS: No Data Returned when Date Prompts used

If I use this in my dataset SQL:
DECLARE #StartDate DATE = '2018-01-01'
DECLARE #EndDate DATE = '2018-03-01'
The report runs and returns the expected Data.
When I comment out the #StartDate & #EndDate variables - delete the two parameters from the Report - and run the report using Date Prompts at run time [using the same Dates] - I get no data returned.
The Date field that I am attempting to filter on is a Datetime field.
I have tried the following two approaches in my SQL:
o.ORDERDATE >= #StartDate And o.ORDERDATE <= #EndDate
cast(o.ORDERDATE as DATE) >= Cast(#StartDate As Date) And cast(o.ORDERDATE as DATE) <= Cast(#EndDate As Date)
No data.
I added a Text Box to the Report Header and put the #StartDate Parameter value in there and got this: 01/01/2018 12:00:00 AM at run time.
I have gone back and forth a few times between uncommenting and commenting the Date variables at the top of the SQL. When I use the local variables - I get data. When I use the Date Parameters - no data.
I use Date Prompts in many of my other reports with no problems. I will go back and see if any of them is on this particular table and this particular date field - or if any of the other dates are Datetime fields ....
Meanwhile, I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks!
I would suspect a conversion issue comparing Date and DateTime types. To prove this, set the dates manually in your query to the full date and time. if this produces no results then try something simple like.
WHERE CAST(o.ORDERDATE AS Date) Between #StartDate AND #EndDate
Bear in mind that if you start your date with the year (I think) by default this is interpreted as being in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Week Start date from a Date MS Access

I have a field with dates, I will like to run a query that updates another field with the Week Start Date (Sunday). How can I do that ?
I am using MS Access.
You should be able to do that with a combination of the DateAdd() and Weekday() functions, as in:
UPDATE theTable SET weekStartDate = DateAdd("d", -Weekday(theDate) + 1, theDate)

SSRS Expression - Find First Day of Week From Week value

I've got an SSRS report that returns unique login count to our VDI Pools broken down by week.
For example for January it would read:
Week # of Logins
2015_JANUARY_WEEK_NO_1 3
2015_JANUARY_WEEK_NO_2 49
I'm using the Week column to link to another report that'll display the selected week's logins so I have to get the first day of the selected week and the last day of the select week and pass them to the other report as parameters.
I know how to get pull the year and week # from the Week column.
=Mid(Fields!Week.Value,1,4)
gives me the year and
=Trim(Mid(Fields!Week.Value,Len(Fields!Week.Value),Len(Fields!Week.Value)))
gives me the week.
I found this T-SQL that works:
DECLARE #WeekNum INT
, #YearNum char(4);
SELECT #WeekNum = 2
, #YearNum = 2015
-- once you have the #WeekNum and #YearNum set, the following calculates the date range.
SELECT DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk, 6, '1/1/' + #YearNum) + (#WeekNum-1), 6) AS StartOfWeek;
SELECT DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk, 5, '1/1/' + #YearNum) + (#WeekNum-1), 5) AS EndOfWeek;
but I cannot figure out how to turn that into an expression that doesn't throw an error.
This is what I've got so far:
=DateAdd("w", DateDiff("w", 6, '1/1/' + (Mid(Fields!Week.Value,1,4))) + (Trim(Mid(Fields!Week.Value,Len(Fields!Week.Value),Len(Fields!Week.Value)))
- 1), 6)
and when I try to run the report in design view it returns an Expression expected error.
Edit
Sorry, I guess I should've posted my original query that's populating the report. Here it is below:
SELECT Convert(varchar(20),UPPER(DATENAME(YEAR, Time)))
+'_'+CONVERT(varchar(20),UPPER(DATENAME(MONTH, Time)))
+'_WEEK_NO_'+CONVERT(varchar(10),(DAY(Time)
+ (DATEPART(DW, DATEADD (MONTH, DATEDIFF (MONTH, 0, Time), 0))-1) -1)/7 + 1) as 'Week'
, Count(DISTINCT SUBSTRING(ModuleAndEventText,LEN('User ') + 2
, CHARINDEX(' requested', ModuleAndEventText) - LEN('User ') - 2)) as WeekCount
FROM VE1_UserLogins
WHERE DesktopId = #Pool
AND ([Time] BETWEEN (#StartDate) and (DATEADD(ms, -1, #EndDate +1)))
GROUP BY Convert(varchar(20),UPPER(DATENAME(YEAR, Time)))
+'_'+CONVERT(varchar(20),UPPER(DATENAME(MONTH, Time)))
+'_WEEK_NO_'+CONVERT(varchar(10),(DAY(Time)
+ (DATEPART(DW, DATEADD (MONTH, DATEDIFF (MONTH, 0, Time), 0))-1) -1)/7 + 1),YEAR(Time),MONTH(Time)
ORDER BY YEAR(Time), MONTH(Time), Week
I am assuming your Fields!Week.Value is string in date format like MM/dd/yyyy or something similar so if you want to get the start of that week Sunday as first day and Saturday as last day and you want to get there date then you should use below expression,
For start of week,
=DateAdd("d",1- DatePart("w", CDate(Fields!WeekDate.Value)), CDate(Fields!WeekDate.Value))
For end of week,
=DateAdd("d", 7 - DatePart("w", CDate(Fields!WeekDate.Value)), CDate(Fields!WeekDate.Value))
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UPDATE
Now there are two ways to achieve what you want
1)Calculate start of week and end of week at the sql and get the result to directly display on repott
2) Get time field from the sql and set expression in the SSRS
For the first way to achieve you need to add these two lines in your select sql statement
DATEADD(dd, -(DATEPART(dw, MIN(Time))-1),MIN(Time)) AS 'StartOfWeek'
,DATEADD(dd, 7-(DATEPART(dw, MIN(Time))), MIN(Time)) AS 'EndOfWeek'
Second way to achieve is
Update your Sql statement to get the date part and then include that date into the above given expression.
So for you your query you need to add,
,MIN(Time) AS WeekDate
Then you can use the above expression with using the incoming field WeekDate as input(I have updated the expression).
But, If you have no actual need for the date other than calculating the start and end of week then use the first method to get the data from the sql server as formatted.

How to filter the current week as a range of dates

Hi I have a MySQL database which on I am setting up a table for a Study Calendar, fields are as follows:
SELECT
studycalendarpk,
studytopic,
`module`,
startdate,
enddate,
syllabusoutline
FROM studycalendar
What I am trying to do is to create a query so that for a dashboard php page it has a query that dispays the current weeks study programme. Can someone please tell me how to setup query to filter it so that it is selected if the current date is between the startdate and enddate, thank you
You have a startdate and an enddate for each row in your table, and if I understand your requirement correctly, you want to display all rows that meet these criteria.
WHERE enddate >= start of week
AND startdate < start of next week
You already have startdate and enddate in your table. This answer assumes that each row's enddate is constrained to be greater than or equal to the starttdate. If it isn't you'll get strange results.
You need a MySQL expression to compute the first day of the present week. Here's how you do that.
FROM_DAYS(TO_DAYS(CURDATE()) -MOD(TO_DAYS(CURDATE()) -1, 7))
This expression yields the Sunday immediately preceding CURDATE(). If your weeks are considered to start on Monday, use this instead (notice the -2).
FROM_DAYS(TO_DAYS(CURDATE()) -MOD(TO_DAYS(CURDATE()) -2, 7))
These are very useful expressions because they yield actual dates. Those dates can then be manipulated by date arithmetic such as somedate + INTERVAL 7 DAY which conveniently gives you the date a week later. This sort of arithmetic even works for the last week, and the first week, of a calendar year.
Putting it all together, here's what you do to select the records you want.
WHERE enddate >= FROM_DAYS(TO_DAYS(CURDATE())-MOD(TO_DAYS(CURDATE())-1,7))
AND startdate < FROM_DAYS(TO_DAYS(CURDATE())-MOD(TO_DAYS(CURDATE())-1,7))
+ INTERVAL 7 DAY
This will get the records from your table relevant to the current week.
SELECT *
FROM studycalendar
where curdate() between startdate and enddate
Can you try it? We can gett week no of use by this week() method
SELECT
`studycalendarpk`,
`studytopic`,
`module`,
`startdate`,
`enddate`,
CAST(week(now()) AS UNSIGNED)
syllabusoutline
FROM studycalendar WHERE CAST(week(now()) AS UNSIGNED) between CAST(week('2014-09-01') AS UNSIGNED) and CAST(week('2014-09-07') AS UNSIGNED)