I'm trying to populate an expression (default value of a parameter) with an explicit time. How do I remove the time from the the "now" function?
Something like this:
=FormatDateTime(Now, DateFormat.ShortDate)
Where "Now" can be replaced by the name of the date/time field that you're trying to convert.)
For instance,
=FormatDateTime(Fields!StartDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate)
Since SSRS utilizes VB, you can do the following:
=Today() 'returns date only
If you were to use:
=Now() 'returns date and current timestamp
=CDate(Now).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")
Although you are hardcoding the date formart to a locale.
If you have to display the field on report header then try this...
RightClick on Textbox > Properties > Category > date > select *Format (Note this will maintain the regional settings).
Since this question has been viewed many times, I'm posting it... Hope it helps.
Just use DateValue(Now) if you want the result to be of DateTime data type.
If expected data format is MM-dd-yyyy then try below,
=CDate(Now).ToString("MM-dd-yyyy")
Similarly you can try this one,
=Format(Today(),"MM-dd-yyyy")
Output: 02-04-2016
Note:
Now() will show you current date and time stamp
Today() will show you Date only not time part.
Also you can set any date format instead of MM-dd-yyyy in my example.
In the format property of any textbox field you can use format strings:
e.g. D/M/Y, D, etc.
One thing that might help others is that you can place: =CDate(Now).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") in the Format String Property of SSRS which can be obtained by right clicking the column. That is the cleanest way to do it. Then your expression won't be too large and difficult to visually "parse" :)
FormatDateTime(Parameter.StartDate.Value)
I'm coming late in the game but I tried all of the solutions above! couldn't get it to drop the zero's in the parameter and give me a default (it ignored the formatting or appeared blank). I was using SSRS 2005 so was struggling with its clunky / buggy issues.
My workaround was to add a column to the custom [DimDate] table in my database that I was pulling dates from. I added a column that was a string representation in the desired format of the [date] column. I then created 2 new Datasets in SSRS that pulled in the following queries for 2 defaults for my 'To' & 'From' date defaults -
'from'
SELECT Datestring
FROM dbo.dimDate
WHERE [date] = ( SELECT MAX(date)
FROM dbo.dimdate
WHERE date < DATEADD(month, -3, GETDATE()
)
'to'
SELECT Datestring
FROM dbo.dimDate
WHERE [date] = ( SELECT MAX(date)
FROM dbo.dimdate
WHERE date <= GETDATE()
)
My solution for a Date/Time parameter:
=CDate(Today())
The trick is to convert back to a DateTime as recommend Perhentian.
Found the solution from here
This gets the last second of the previous day:
DateAdd("s",-1,DateAdd("d",1,Today())
This returns the last second of the previous week:
=dateadd("d", -Weekday(Now), (DateAdd("s",-1,DateAdd("d",1,Today()))))
This should be done in the dataset. You could do this
Select CAST(CAST(YourDateTime as date) AS Varchar(11)) as DateColumnName
In SSRS Layout, just do this =Fields!DateColumnName.Value
Just concatenate a string to the end of the value:
Fields!<your field>.Value & " " 'test'
and this should work!
Related
I am just trying to getting my data to do a color fill if the date value equals today.
The data is coming from oracle:
=IIf(Fields!finishDATE.Value = Today(),"Yellow","Transparent")
This will not give me any errors nor will it do the function according to the expression. None of the data with the finish date equaling today highlights.
If today is 8/24/2021 it should look like this:
3/22/2021, 8/24/2021, 2/22/2021
As I'm not sure what format the data will come in from Oracle (I'm a MS SQL person) then this might be overkill but try this
=IIF (Format(Fields!finishDATE.Value, "yyyyMMdd") = Format(Today(), "yyyyMMdd"), "Yellow", Nothing)
All I'm doing here is comparing just the date parts of the date/datetime values.
Below is the output. The first column is the actual date column contents including a time, then for illustration only, the 2nd column shows it formatted to just the date part and the 3rd column show today() with the same format applied.
Finally, I used the keyword Nothing (SSRS almost equivalent of NULL) as this is the correct default value.
I'm using the following expression to pull a default date from yesterday:
=DateAdd("d",-1,Today())
The business requirements changed and now they want to see yesterday AND today. Is it possible to add onto this expression to include yesterday and today?
Just set the parameter to yesterday date and change this in your query.
WHERE [DateColumn] >= #DataParam
If you want to show the dates the report is using, try this in a textbox:
="Dates: " & Parameters!DateParam.Value & "-" Today()
UPDATE: If your parameter is multivalued you have to add two default values using these expression:
=Today()
=Today.AddDays(-1)
Then in your query change this:
WHERE [DateColumn] IN (#DateParam)
Let me know if this helps.
i'm trying to specify dd/mm/yyyy dateformat for date/time parameter in SSRS 2008 R2.
My computers datetime format is mm-dd-yyyy.
My requirement is, i want to show date format at dd/mm/yyyy irrespective of the system/server date format.
I've already tried CDate(Format(Today,"dd/mm/yyyy")) which didn't work. one very strange thing i observed is, it shows dd/mm/yyyy format only for dates on or before 12-MM-yyyy, and 13 onwards it gives error: Conversion from string '25-04-2014' to type Date is not valid. (Possibly it is trying to map 25(daypart) with MM-dd-yyyy (month part)) which is out of range of total months i.e. 12)
my research on internet says it is a bug in BIDS 2008.
What do i do to display date as dd/mm/yyyy ??
I don't have enough reputation to comment, but I did notice that you failed to put "()" after "Today". If I'm not mistaken you must put Today() for that function to work. Also, you might want to try putting CDate Around the Today() function. You shouldn't need it, but it's worth a shot. Also, for some odd reason, in my experience, you must capitalize MM for format to work correctly.
Like #Aditaya said, it should be =format(Today(),"dd/MM/yyyy")
The expression I usually use is:
=FormatDateTime(Fields!Date.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate)
However, this may be region specific.
Rather than writing an expression to do the formatting, you can also use the Textbox Format Property. But first you need to make sure that the data is in a date format. So use the CDate function on your column like this:
=CDate(Fields!Date.Value)
Then in the textbox properties go to the Number tab. Select Date for the category. Then you can select whichever format you want or use a Custom format. This will change how the column displays when you run the report.
I need current month name as default perameter name in my ssrs report. How can I get current month name using an ssrs expression?
For example "27-09-2012" would become "September"
and one more i need....
27-09-2012 to previous month name as well (August)
First question:
=MonthName(Month(Fields!datefield.Value))
Second question:
=MonthName(Month(DateAdd("m", -1, Today())))
I think the second question answer might be something like that, first converting the date to month then subtracting 1 from the month value and then converting it to month name.
Further reading:
SSRS Reports get Month name from Month Index or from date
Converting month number to month name in reporting services
OFF: I would change the date format you are using to 2012-09-27 as it works in every setting and should give you peace of mind when converting date formats.
Don't subtract 1 b/c it won't work for January.
Use this:
MonthName(Month(DateAdd("m", -1, CDate(Today))))
As a note, I tried the suggestion of =MonthName(Month(today())). What I would get is #error for whatever field the expression was in. However, =MonthName(str(Month(today()))) worked for me. I am unsure of whether or not the MonthName method changed to require a string or if it is some issue with my program. Just figured I would post this in case anyone else was having the same issue.
For Previous Month i found universal way : =MonthName(Month(CDate(Today()))-1,False) for SEPTEMBER (Full Month Name) 'OR'
=MonthName(Month(CDate(Today()))-1,True) for SEP (Short Month Name)
I have a report that has parameters StartDate and EndDate. I would like the EndDate parameter's time part to default to the end of the day when selected from the drop down.
For instance, if a user selects 5/15/2008 from the dropdown, the value shown in the box should be '5/15/2008 23:59:59' not '5/15/2008 12:00:00'
Its pretty easy to do this in .Net using the event model and a line of code but in Report Builder 2.0, what would I need to do?
Is there code that I need to write for this or did I miss some funky expression that could handle this?
Thanks.
AboutDev
I would suggest setting the default parameter in the Report Parameters section. You can get to this from Report > Report Parameters.
This allows you to set a non-queried default. There you can enter an expression like
=DateAdd(Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateInterval.Second ,-1,dateadd("d",1,Today))
That should give you a default for the end of today.
Edit: Really only useful for a single default value.
It's been awhile since I've used SSRS, so bear with me. You'll have to do a little translation, but here's what I've done in the past.
When you define your EndDate parameter, create an additional parameter named EndDateEOD, after EndDate in your list of parameters. Make this parameter a hidden value, and set it to the last moment of the day, similar to the way that Jeremy calculates it.
Then you can use #EndDateEOD in your report query where you have #EndDate now.
When StartDate is selected, you could have EndDate default to its value, so that EndDateEOD will automatically be set to the end of the start date.
Use the parameter in a DATEADD() expression in your dataset.
Rather than
...WHERE end_date = #end_date
do something like this:
...WHERE end_date = DATEADD(ms, -3, #end_date + 1)
That will go forward a day (the +1), then go back 3 milliseconds, to the last instant of the day recordable by a datetime.
You can do something like this:
=CDate(Parameters!StartDate.Value + " 23:59:59")
The part of Parameters!StartDate.Value can be any date but not the EndDate.Value itself. Eg:
- Today()
- Last day of the month from start date:
=CDate(DateSerial(Year(Parameters!StartDate.Value), Month(Parameters!StartDate.Value) + 1, 0)+" 23:59:59")
Hope this help.