Date format in presentation variable

Dear Guru,
My prompt has a calendar month edit box which is in "YYYY / MM" format. I have set this as a presentation variable p_month.
Now I need to add 1 month to this presentation variable in the filter, I have tried to write the sql but it is complicated, and it does not work. Anyone could help?
Thanks a lot,
Joe

Thanks, but I have tried the following, it returns a error msg.
"Snapshot Date"."Snapshot Month" IN ('@{p_snapshot_month}', Timestampadd(sql_tsi_month,1,cast(Evaluate('To_Date(%1,%2)',cast('@{p_snapshot_month}' as char),'YYYY / MM') as date)))
"Snapshot Date"."Snapshot Month" IN (@{p_snapshot_month}, Timestampadd(sql_tsi_month,1,cast(Evaluate('To_Date(%1,%2)',cast('@{p_snapshot_month}' as char),'YYYY / MM') as date)))
"Snapshot Date"."Snapshot Month" IN ('p_snapshot_month', Timestampadd(sql_tsi_month,1,cast(Evaluate('To_Date(%1,%2)',cast('@{p_snapshot_month}' as char),'YYYY / MM') as date)))
Error msg:
Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW).
Error Details
Error Codes: OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
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TIMESTAMP '2007-10-01 00:00:00'
This will display no matter what I change the Initialization block to (01, ab, etc) so I guess it is something from the formula.
Now when a user does enter a value into the prompt box and hits GO the title changes to reflect a date and looks great (10/1/2007), but I guess this is because it is now passing the database column value to this presentation variable.
I assume this all revolves around the formula I am creating in the repository to return a default of 10/1/2007 so it can be displayed in the report header like that and not with the TimeStamp format above.
I appreciate all your input, thanks again!

Date format in presentation variable

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