Date parameters with Sage

Question

I am attempting to build a report for SSRS using Visual Studio. 
I have a query that is returning results, and the report is functioning perfectly.  However, the end user decided they wanted a date range selector on this report.  I have done this hundreds of times before with standard SQL databases/reports,
but never before when accessing a Sage database.
Here is my issue.  When I put the date parameters into the query, it throws an error message.  Here is the line in the query that is causing me the issue:
AND SO_SalesOrderDetail.PromiseDate between {d @beginDate} and {d @endDate}
And here is the error message it gives:
Error[37000][ProvideX][ODBC Driver]Expected lexical element not found: <identifier>.
This query functions perfectly if I hard code a static date into it, but the user wants to be able to select a date range of their own.  Any ideas on how to fix this issue?
Mitchell Colwell

Answer 1

Hi Wedge47,
Based on your description, you are experiencing the problem when adding date range selector on this report by creating two parameters: BeginDate and EndDate, but when added them in the query, it caused some error, right?
In SQL Server Reporting Service, there are two methods to filter the data by using a parameter, one is add it to the query, another one is add a filter to your dataset. I have tested on my local environment, the problem due the query is incorrect by using
“{d @Date}” , so in order to avoid this issue, you can choose another method by adding a filter to create the date range selector:
You can check steps below to know how to add the filter:
Right click the main dataset to select the “Dataset Properties” and choose the filter on the left pane
Click “Add” and add the filter: In the Expression choose the field of the date: PromiseDate
Please refer to the article about the Transact-SQL Statements for the timestamp and date:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191307.aspx
If you still have any question, please feel free to ask.
Regards
Vicky Liu