get monthname from parameter .

[actcognosuser]

Hi all,
            I have a text item in my header with parameterdisplayvalue('enddate').

I want to display only the month in the selected end date .I applied dataformat in the text properties .It did not work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[MFGF]

Hi,

Instead of this, add a data item to your report query with the expression ?enddate?

Drop a Singleton into your page header, and set its Query property to point to your report query.

Then drop your data item into the singleton.

Finally select the data item, and use its Data Format property to format it as a date with only the long month name displayed.

MF.

[actcognosuser]

Hi MFGF,
 
                 I added the dataitem with the expression?enddate?

The result was : 2014-08-09 T00:00:00.000.

When i run tabular SQL for that query it gives me 2014-08-09.Why am i getting these extra characters after the month????

[MFGF]

It's the time part of the datetime value.  Just ignore it - when you format the value as date and display only the long month name, you will not see it.

MF.

[actcognosuser]

Hi MFGF,
                I still see the time .I set the dataformat to display longname for month.

[actcognosuser]

Used the cast_date.It worked.

[MFGF]

Did you select a Data Format of Date or Date/Time?