Dates greyed out in calendar date picker

Question

Hi,
I have created a parameterised condition allowing users to enter two dates as part of a range
join_date between :FromStartDate AND :ToEndDate
On executing the worksheet , the runtime parameter dialog allows the user the option to choose the date from a calendar. On briefly testing this, I noticed that the initial dates displayed in the calendar dialog were from 2002. More importantly, on trying to 'pick' today's date for the :ToEndDate parameter, only 2 dates were selectable for this month. Is the choice of dates from the calendar dependant on the actual Join_date values in the database? I created the parameterised condition as part of the worksheet wizard,
Thanks in advance for any confirmation of this,
regards,
Kevin.

Answer 1

When you create the business area, what are you specifying in the Load Wizard Step 4? In that step you are asked if you want to generate additional objects. One of those choices involves date hierarchies. I always check that, and leave at the default of Default Date Hierarchy. Any date columns that come into my business area folders get automatically assigned to that default date hierarchy and get a LOV for them. When I take one of those date fields and make it a parameter in a work book, it automatically gets the LOV icon next to it (in Discoverer Plus) and has a pretty full choice of years to choose from. I admit to not knowing where it is getting the date data to select from, but it all works like magic as far as I am concerned. So you may want to look at how you create a business area, to see if maybe you need to change something in that process. You should not be having these kinds of problems. Unless maybe these column you want to use are not defined as date columns? So a couple of things to consider here.
John Dickey