Change date format in BEx report

There is a date field in report which is character type.
ZCOMDAT - compensation date (CHAR 8)
The output of this file in report is YYYYMMDD (20110422) format which is char
This should be converted to 22-APR-2011 in BEx report.
This object is used in many reports but only in this report it should be converted.
How can this be achieved?

Hi akshara,
Apart from the above mentioned approaches i have one strange solution . You might want to consider this .
You said you have an infoobject ZCOMDAT of type char(8) .
Proceed like this :
1) In the infoobject maintain medium text for this . Insert this characteristic as an infoprovider .
2) Now since this infoobject will have the dates in the master data and hence in /BIC/PZCOMDAT table .
Create a generic datasource on this table : /BIC/PZCOMDAT .
Now create a transformation between this generic datasource & the text master data of ZCOMDAT.
map date and objvers to the text in the transformation .
And write the following routine at the field level :
If SOURCE_FIELDS-OBJVERS = 'A'.
year = SOURCE_FIELDS-/BIC/PZCOMDAT+0(4).
mon = SOURCE_FIELDS-/BIC/PZCOMDAT+4(2).
dd = SOURCE_FIELDS-/BIC/PZCOMDAT+6(2).
if mon = '01'.
  mth = 'JAN'.
ELSEIF mon = '02'.
  mth = 'FEB'.
ELSEIF mon = '03'.
  mth = 'MAR'.
ELSEIF mon = '04'.
  mth = 'APR'.
  ELSEIF mon = '05'.
  mth = 'MAY'.
  ELSEIF mon = '06'.
  mth = 'JUN'.
  ELSEIF mon = '07'.
  mth = 'JUL'.
  ELSEIF mon = '08'.
  mth = 'AUG'.
  ELSEIF mon = '09'.
  mth = 'SEP'.
  ELSEIF mon = '10'.
  mth = 'OCT'.
  ELSEIF mon = '11'.
  mth = 'NOV'.
  ELSEIF mon = '12'.
  mth = 'DEC'.
  ENDIF.
CONCATENATE DD '-' MTH '-' YEAR INTO RESULT.
CLEAR:DD,MTH,YEAR.
endif.
After this load the the data . Now your text of this object will be having the date required in your format.
3) In the query level display text for this infoobject .The date will appear in the format as you desired .
You have to include the above flow in a process chain .
Using the above method will not effect your query performance also as the calculation are happening during loading .
Hope the above reply was helpful.
Kind Regards,
Ashutosh Singh
Edited by: Ashutosh Singh on May 21, 2011 9:43 AM

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