Dates Drop Down List

I have a table which stores a list of valid dates. These dates are then foreign keyed to another table date column
I have a VO which selects a date field. In the attribute I have set it as Simpale Date and specified dd-MMM-yyy format. The default date format in the Application Definition file is dd-MMM-yyyy. I have created a domain for this VO and then set the Item to drop down list in the group. WHen I try and access the page with the dropdown list I get the following error :
javax.faces.convert.ConverterException: Not a date
Now, to confuse matters, If I set the date format in the VO to dd-MM-yyyy it runs the page and shows the drop down list in dd-MM-yyyy format. However, when I try and save it then throws an error for the FK saying the parent does not exist. I am assuming that this is because it is expecting dd-MMM-yyyy.
Help please.
Rich

Rich,
You could turn on ADF BC diagnostics (-Djbo.debugoutput=true) to see which date value it is trying to insert. Or You could also temporarily disable the foreign key constraint to see which value gets inserted.
You can then compare the two values, it might be related to the "hidden" time component stored against date columns.
In general, we recommend usage of meaningless Primary keys. So, if you have control over the DB Design, you might want to introduce an ID column in the dates lookup table to avoid the issue all together.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.

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data drop-down list
Jason Murthy - 11:39am Feb 14, 2005 Pacific
Hello,
I am trying to use the data drop-down list from the custom library. I enter the name of my data connection and the other 2 variables in quotes when they are initialized, just like the example says to, but it still doesn't work. Anyone have any thoughts?
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Denzil White - 5:46am Jul 28, 05 PST (#10 of 11)
Oh and before you say anything more I have also tried changing it from Javascript to the FormCalc, and no diff, maybe I am more stupid than I realised, heh,heh
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Henk Pisuisse - 12:06am Aug 9, 05 PST (#11 of 11)
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