Date field in Dashboard Prompt

Hi,
Still try to find how I can format date in dashboard prompt.
I have created prompt for Invoice cleared date using calendar format in control.
After pressing go button the format is changed to MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS
I want format should always remain to MM/DD/YYYY.
Please let me the easy way to correct this issue.
Thanks,
Poojak

Yikes! I think you may have found a bug...
Seeing your screen shots, I was able to recreate your issue. I tried modifying the database connection feature tab to set a default datetime format, as well as changing the datetime format in the NQSconfig.ini file. Looking at the source code of the OBIEE page, it appears that there is Java script called GFPDoFilters that runs once you click the button (see "onclick" in the source code below). This function seems to be called in ..\OracleBI\web\app\res\b_mozilla\prompts\globalfilterprompt.js.
If you know java script, you can try and play around in there to find where the date is defaulting to, although I'm no java script expert, and messing with core code can potentially void your OBIEE warranties.
You may want to log this as a bug with Metalink and see how they respond to it. I agree with you that it does not make sense to have a timestamp added to a calendar day selector, so hopefully they would look into resolving for the next release.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to provide the response you were looking for, but I think it may be the unfortunate reality.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do, and good luck!
Regards,
Jason
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