Current Date Object

Hi,
i´d been searching for this for a long time but still don´t get it! how do i create a new object @universe level wich only delivers the current date or sysdate? i´d read a lot about SYSDATE but no change...
does the universe support objects that do not reference to a current object member but rather calculates the current date via MDX?
by the way a need to create such an object @universe, not within the bw query.
Thanks a lot for help.

Hi,
Create an object date1 of type date.
In select clause,
dim_date.calendar_date
in where clause,
to_char(dim_date.calendar_date,'dd-mon-yyyy') = (select to_char(sysdate-1,'dd-mon-yyyy') from dual).
Hope this will solve your problem.
Acc to my knowledge, We can't use directly currentdate() function in universe.
This link may be help you:
http://www.gulland.com/wp/?p=18

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package awesomedate;
//The following are imported for the toFormattedString(), toUtilDate(), toSQLDate, and toCalendar() methods, respectively.
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.TimeZone;
*This class is designed to be the ultimate date object. It stores dates accurate to the millisecond, has the ability to do date
*arithmetic (adding/subtracting days/months/whatever), date comparison, and date formatting. Also it can, at will, be used as any
*of the other date objects in the standard java API.
public class AwesomeDate
 *Milliseconds from the epoch. This field is where everything starts.
 private long millis;
 * The current year. This is the only aspect of the current date that is stored in addition to the milliseconds. Everything else
 * is calculated as needed.
 private int year;
 //The following six variables are fairly self explanatory. I'll explain them anyway.
 *Milliseconds in one non-leap year. This can be passed to the "adjustDate()" method
 * but mostly it is used to make my code more readable.
 public final static long MILLIS_IN_YEAR = 31536000000L;
 *Milliseconds in one leap year. This can be passed to the "adjustDate()" method
 * but mostly it is used to make my code more readable.
 public static final long MILLIS_IN_LEAP_YEAR = 31622400000L;
 *Milliseconds in one day. This can be passed to the "adjustDate()" method
 * but mostly it is used to make my code more readable.
 public static final long MILLIS_IN_DAY = 86400000;
 *Milliseconds in one hour. This can be passed to the "adjustDate()" method
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 public static final long MILLIS_IN_HOUR = 3600000;
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 * but mostly it is used to make my code more readable.
 public static final long MILLIS_IN_MINUTE = 60000;
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 * but mostly it is used to make my code more readable.
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 *As the name would indicate, this is the number of milliseconds beyond 00:00 of jan 1 of the current year.
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 setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
 *Fairly simple constructor. Sets time to the the number of milliseconds passed past the epoch.
 public AwesomeDate(long millis)
 setTimeInMillis(millis);
 *This constructor sets the date to the year/month/day passed.
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 *This constructor sets the date time to the year/month/day/minute/hour/second passed.
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 setDate(year, month, day, hour, minute, second);
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 year = 1970;
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 nextYear = MILLIS_IN_YEAR;
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 this.millis = millis;
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 setYearAfter1970();
 else
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 return this.millis;
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 return this.year;
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 public void setYear(int year)
 this.year = year;
 long theseMillis = 0;
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 //Kind of like setYearAfter1970 method, except it's adding instead of subtracting. So actually it's the opposite.
 for (int cntr = 1970; cntr < this.year; cntr++)
 if (isLeapYear(cntr))
 theseMillis = theseMillis + MILLIS_IN_LEAP_YEAR;
 else
 theseMillis = theseMillis + MILLIS_IN_YEAR;
 else
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 theseMillis = theseMillis - MILLIS_IN_LEAP_YEAR;
 else
 theseMillis = theseMillis - MILLIS_IN_YEAR;
 //On a leap year there are 29 days in February. If not, there's 28.
 if (isLeapYear(year))
 daysInMonth[1] = 29;
 else
 daysInMonth[1] = 28;
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 millisAfterYear = 0;
 setTimeInMillis(theseMillis);
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 public void setMonth(int month)
 if (month < 0 || month > 11)
 throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(month);
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 setYear(this.year);
 if (getTimeInMillis() > 0)
 theseMillis = theseMillis - getTimeInMillis();
 else
 theseMillis = theseMillis + getTimeInMillis();
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 days = days + daysInMonth[cntr];
 millisAfterYear = days * MILLIS_IN_DAY + 1;
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 int cntr = 0;
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 *Set the day of month to the one passed.
 public void setDayOfMonth(int day)
 if (day < 1 || day > daysInMonth[getMonth()])
 throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(day);
 setMonth(getMonth());
 //Internally, this actually works starting at zero, however to anyone using this class it appears to start at 1. Therefore
 //i must subtract one here.
 long addMillis = MILLIS_IN_DAY * (day - 1);
 millisAfterYear = millisAfterYear + addMillis;
 setTimeInMillis(getTimeInMillis() + addMillis + 1);
 *Returns the day of month.
 public int getDayOfMonth()
 int days = (int)(millisAfterYear / MILLIS_IN_DAY);
 int cntr = 0;
 while (days >= daysInMonth[cntr])
 days = days - daysInMonth[cntr];
 cntr++;
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 *Sets the time to the currently selected day at the passed hour on the hour. uses 24 hour clock.
 public void setHour(int hour)
 if (hour < 0 || hour > 23)
 throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(hour);
 setDayOfMonth(getDayOfMonth());
 long addMillis = MILLIS_IN_HOUR * hour;
 millisAfterYear = millisAfterYear + addMillis;
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 *Returns the hour (but not how many minutes past the hour).
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 long millisAfterDay = millisAfterYear % MILLIS_IN_DAY;
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 *Set the minutes past the hour. Works 0-59.
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 setDayOfMonth(day);
 setHour(hour);
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 setSecond(second);
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 return isLeapYear(this.year);
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 private boolean isLeapYear(int year)
 boolean leapYear = false;
 if (year % 4 == 0)
 if (year % 100 != 0)
 leapYear = true;
 else if (year % 400 == 0)
 leapYear = true;
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 public long getDifferenceInMillis(long millis)
 return getTimeInMillis() - millis;
 *Returns the difference in milliseconds between this date and the date passed to this method.
 public long getDifferenceInMillis(AwesomeDate otherDate)
 return getDifferenceInMillis(otherDate.getTimeInMillis());
 *Designed to be a wrapper method for the getDifferenceInMillis method. This method changes millis into years/days/whatever. Pass
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 *want (year, day, whatever). Use the MILLIS_IN_* fields associated with this object. Also bear in mind when workin with years that
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 return (int)(millis / denom);
 * The first argument is how many of whatever (days, months, years, etc.) to add (use negative numbers to subtract). For the second
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 *Returns an object of type java.util.Date set to the date/time stored here.
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 long offset = TimeZone.getDefault().getRawOffset();
 return new java.util.Date(getTimeInMillis() + -1 * offset);
// return new java.util.Date(getTimeInMillis());
 *Returns an object of type GregorianCalendar set to the date/time stored here.
 public GregorianCalendar toGregorianCalendar()
 long offset = TimeZone.getDefault().getRawOffset();
 GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
 cal.setTimeInMillis(getTimeInMillis() - offset);
 return cal;
 *Returns an object of type java.sql.Date set to the date/time stored here.
 public java.sql.Date toSQLDate()
 long offset = TimeZone.getDefault().getRawOffset();
 return new java.sql.Date(getTimeInMillis() - offset);
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 *Letter Date or Time Component Presentation Examples 
 *G Era designator Text AD 
 *y Year Year 1996; 96 
 *M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07 
 *w Week in year Number 27 
 *W Week in month Number 2 
 *D Day in year Number 189 
 *d Day in month Number 10 
 *F Day of week in month Number 2 
 *E Day in week Text Tuesday; Tue 
 *a Am/pm marker Text PM 
 *H Hour in day (0-23) Number 0 
 *k Hour in day (1-24) Number 24 
 *K Hour in am/pm (0-11) Number 0 
 *h Hour in am/pm (1-12) Number 12 
 *m Minute in hour Number 30 
 *s Second in minute Number 55 
 *S Millisecond Number 978 
 *z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00 
 *Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800 
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 SimpleDateFormat formattage = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
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The reason Callendar is so complicated is that it is trying to solve a very complicated problem.
You don't appear to support leap seconds (of which there can be upto 2 in any time interval)
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html
Some of your code will not work for large dates very well (seems to iterate over the years). Try using your date class for astronomical or geological calculations. them big numbers will make your code slow at the moment.
You don't seem to support timezones or transitory offsets (BST vs GMT). You most definately don't handle changes to timezone offsets that have occured in the past or historical daylight savings time offsets (they have not always been the same)
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Hi Experts,
I have a requirement in WebI to display last 6 months of data based on current date.Actually I have a column called "Employee Contract Start date" in my report.Suppose the end user executes the report today,then he should be able to see the Employee's data whose contract started today and in the last 6months from current date.
Also I have dimension object name "Employee Contract Start Date".
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I have Objects "Calender day" , "Cal.year/Month" , "Calender month" , "Employee Contract Start Date" in the BEx Query.
Could anyone please propose me, what are the ways to meet this requirement?

Hi Cris,
We can get the 6 Months date in webi.
Check the below blog , will help you.
http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-web-intelligence/blog/2014/01/21/time-variablesdimensions
Regards,
Javed

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thanks

The getTime() method will return the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. You can then write a number of functions to calculate the date from this.
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i.e. if your Date object was called today:
String DD = today.toString().substring()(8)
String MM = today.toString().substring()(5,2)
String YYYY = today.toString().substring()(0,4)
There are other methods (see API) - but these have been deprecated - that means, although they can be used, they are not recomended.
There is also a Calendar object, though this seems to have the same problems.
Hope this helps :)

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Zub

[Read the flamin' manual you must. Hmm.|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM]
~~ Yoda.
Well no actually, he didn't say that, but he should have.
Cheers. Keith.
PS: Don't say that to a 7 foot pissedOff wookie when he's got his head stuck in a smoking hyperdrive, and you're being chased by a S-class battle cruiser... Ask Yoda how he got to be so short.
PPS: It is the SimpleDateFormat you seek ;-)
Edited by: corlettk on 14/10/2008 22:37 ~~ Also far to slow... but funny.

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Hi
In my VC application i have two date fields. we are allowing the end user to select the From Data and Todate though Data pickers, But the client asking to make the today's date as default date in Todate field , rather picking up from the data picker,
Unless the user wants change the todate from the current date. It should display today's date as default date.
can any body tell me how to do it.
Regards
Vijay

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My VC version is 7.0
Portal version NW 2004s.
By refering the following link, i have implemented Export To Excell functionality in VC.
2) Another one that's in the Visual Composer WIKI:
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/VC/Exportingdatafrom+VC
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copied the following given formula in the document in respective formula window ,Formula showin as valid. when i click on check button.
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dd_ons!2fcom.sap.ip.bi!2fiViews!2fcom.sap.ip.bi.b
ex?QUERY=" & STORE@REPTNAME &
"&BI_COMMAND_1-
BI_COMMAND_TYPE=EXPORT&BI_COMMAND
1-EXPORTFORMAT=XLS&BI_COMMAND_1-
null="
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iView : N/A
Component Name : N/A
Could not find portal application com.sap.ip.bi.service.generic.
Exception id: 05:32_01/05/07_0001_18800950
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Regards
Vijay

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Hi,
We would like to understand the size of the master data tables overall for a specific source system (Logical name is Ex.ABCD, which supplies all master data to BW). Can you please advise the procedure to find out this?
Is there any table that will allows to see all the master data objects related to specific sources system so that we can find out that table size? Thanks.
For example, we have many Texts, Hier & Attributes.
0COUNTRY_TEXT
0REGION_TEXT
0PERSON_ATTR
0MATERIAL_LPRH_HIER
Advance Thanks.
Edited by: BW USA on Feb 2, 2010 10:52 AM

Hi,
You can find out all the master data tales used in the BW system by
Tcode : SE11
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Similarly for Texts /BIC/T* and press F4
Similarly for Hierarchies /BIC/H-* press F4
and can know the size of the all tables.
Thanks,
Gopal

How to set Timezone in a date object

Hi,
I need to write a method setTimeZone(Date d,TimeZone t) which should take a Java.util.Date and a Timezone object and set the time zone to the date object.
for example...
Date d=new Date();
TimeZone tz=TimeZone.getTimeZone("PST");
//should print the timezone as EDT because the current system timezone is EDT
System.out.println(d);
setTimeZone(d,tz);
//should print the timezone as PST
System.out.println(d);
public void setTimeZone(Date d,TimeZone tz){
Calendar c=Calendar.getInstance(tz);
c.setTime(d);
c.setTimeZone(tz);
d=c.getTime();
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But today is still showing up EDT timezone and Timezone in calendar is shown as PST.The new timzone is not aplied to date object @ d=c.getTime();
statement.
Could any one please help me...
Edited by: mchepuri on Apr 10, 2009 7:27 PM
Edited by: mchepuri on Apr 10, 2009 7:29 PM

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