Date format in prompt OBI 10g

Question

HI Experts,
I have requirement for date format mm/dd/yyyy need to change dd/mm/yyyy . I used the following the query but giving error:
EVALUATE('TO_CHAR(%1,%2)' ,"SI - Creations & Modifications
Dim"."Première Date de Valeur" , 'DD-MM-YYYY')
nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 22027] Union
of non-compatible types. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT EVALUATE('TO_CHAR(%1,%2)' ,"SI - Creations &
Modifications Dim"."Première Date de Valeur" , 'DD-MM-YYYY') FROM SI
Regards
Birudu Gopal

Answer 1

Hi,
Sorry for mistaking your questions.
Try the below ways of changing the format in the prompt:
-In the physical layer in the Properties try to change the DATE_FORMAT.
-By editing the globalfilterprompt.js we can avoid the conversion of Date value to DateTime in prompt.
For this we need to comment the below code in globalfilterprompt.js in both 1) C:\OracleBI\web\app\res\b_mozilla\prompts
2)C:\OracleBI\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\res\b_mozilla\prompts
//convert datetime; sTimeZoneOffset is '0' if data type is not datetime or type is 'drop'
/*var sTimeZoneOffset = tArgs[3];
if (typeof(sTimeZoneOffset)!='undefined' && sTimeZoneOffset != null && sTimeZoneOffset !='')
var nOffset = parseInt(sTimeZoneOffset,10)
if (typeof(nOffset)=='number' && nOffset != null && !isNaN(nOffset))
var tDTP = new DateTimeParser();
for (var i = 0; i < tValues.length; ++i)
tValues = saw.tz.parseAndAdjustTimeZoneOffset(tValues, nOffset);
-EVALUATE('TO_CHAR(%1,%2)' ,"Dim- Date".Start Date,'DD-MM-YYYY')
-In Physical layer of Repository, change the Data type of your Date_Column to DATE data type.
-In Dashboard Prompt, you have option to for SQL,write the Logical SQL or Advanced SQL as below:
select cast("COLUMN_NAME" as date) from "PresentationLayerName"
Hope this helped.
Regards
MuRam