Default value of date as first day of month

Ho can I make my default value of date parameter as first day of month? {$SYSDATE()$} gives only current date and we can make it like {$SYSDATE()-7$} if we want to minus 7 days but how can we set the default value to first day of month?

I got the answer...It is {$FIRST_DAY_OF_MONTH()$} instead of {$SYSDATE()$}

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Default value for date

Hi experts,
I want to set default value for dates..
My screen has : date_from & date_to.
date_to : will be current date(today's date) if Eg: 27.08.2007 (here i used NOW())
then date_from must be 01.06.2007 (3 months logic)
similarly : if date_to is 01.01.2007
then date_from must be 01.11.2006
kindly help...
Thanks a lot!!!
Regards,
Bijal

Hi Bijal
(DGET(NOW(),'D'))-1) returns number which is 0 incase of 01.08.2007, so DADD(NOW(),-0,'D') is again ideally same day 01.08.2007 .
So, DADD(DADD(NOW(),-0,'D'),-2,'M') should give you 01.06.2007.
<b> IT WORKS!!! -
I have tested it now.</b>
Please check and revert.
The IF formula which sent actually returns String, so use DVAL(IF(DGET(NOW(),'D')!=1,DADD(DADD(NOW(),-((DGET(NOW(),'D'))-1),'D'),-2,'M'),DADD(NOW(),-2,'M')))
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Navneet Giria

How to set default value to date type attribute.

Hi,
How to set default value to date type attribute.
E.g I want to set u201C01/01/1999u201D to date attributes.
First i want to set value and then i want to fetch the same & want to check equals.
please suggest solution.
Regards,
Smita

Hi,
In wdinit() method u can set the date
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
String reportDate = df.format(today);
wdContext.currentContextElement().setFromDate(reportDate);
Another way you have set the this formate like that
1. Create a Simple type under "Dictionaries->SimpleType" called DateFormat
2. Select the type as "date"
3. Go to the "Representation" tab and set the format as "dd/MM/yyyy" (or whatever u want, but month should be MM)
4.Bind the context attribute to the type created now.
Hope this helps u.
Best Regards
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Hi gurus
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Thanks
Rav

Hi,
The simplest way would be to subtract 1 from the date date which you are already getting in transformation routine, but instead of doing that subtraction manually which might need bit of errort, you can simply use another FM to subtract 1 from given date.
RP_CALC_DATE_IN_INTERVAL
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Date for first day of current month

How can i get the date for first day of current month ?

select trunc(sysdate,'MM'),to_char(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),'DD'),to_char(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),'Day') from dual;

First Day of Month - CR 2008

Hi experts,
What's the code of First Day of Month?
For example, AsOfDate : 10/29/2011, I want to get 10/01/2011 from 10/29/2011. I made it like follow, but I believe there is a simple code.
CDate(ToText(DATEPART("m", ),0,'') + '/1/' + ToText(DATEPART("yyyy", ),0,''))
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David

Hi
Try the follwoing :
currentdate - day(currentdate)+1
Note : replace currentdate with your date field.
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Sastry

Need sql querry for PreviousYear First Day Same Month And Currentday rec

Hi ,
I hAVE TABLE FOR EXAMPLE,
emp sal Arrivaldate
111 200 03-mar-2011
100 200 03-mar-2008
150 200 06-mar-2012
170 200 03-mar-2003
178 200 03-mar-2004
112 200 12-jun-2012-------------------->For Example THIS IS TABLE WE HAVE LOT OF RECORDS
I need querry to get based on this condition:Arrival Date is between Previous Year First Day Same Month And Current day.
Any one help me on this.....

Hi,
To get the records between Previous Year First Day Same month to Current day..
SELECT TRUNC (ADD_MONTHS (SYSDATE, -12), 'MM') AS last_yr_first_date, TRUNC(SYSDATE) AS PRESENT_DATE
FROM DUAL;Which Outputs to:
LAST_YR_FIRST_DATE     PRESENT_DATE
6/1/2011                   6/13/2012When you give TRUNC(sysdate) It will removes the Time part of the SYSDATE.
For Ex :
TRUNC(SYSDATE) means that is 6/13/2012 which doesn't give the time part in the query.
Which takes into account the day start that is from 12:00 A.M to today midnight 11.59 P.M.
And, One thing is that
emp sal Arrivaldate
111 200 03-mar-2011
100 200 03-mar-2008
150 200 06-mar-2012
170 200 03-mar-2003
178 200 03-mar-2004
112 200 12-jun-2012The arrivaldate is in Character format so you need to convert to date type as
SELECT TO_DATE(ARRIVALDATE,'DD-MON-YYYY') from your_table;
and the comparison can be done as
SELECT *
FROM YOUR_TABLE
WHERE TO_DATE (ARRIVALDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY')
   AND TRUNC (ADD_MONTHS (SYSDATE, -12), 'MM')
   AND TRUNC (SYSDATE);Good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks,
Shankar

Date picker,first day/last day of month

Hi All
i have two items on my page
:p80_from_date
:p80_last_date
both of them are defined as date picker (dd/mm/yyyy)
i want that the form_date will contain allways the first day of the month the the user is picking
example suppose that the user picks in the :p80_from_date : '20/07/2009'
then the date suppose to be '01/07/2009'
if the user picking :p80_last_date '01/08/2009' the date suppose to be '31/08/2009' .
i've tried to do it with computation with no success.
i rather that after the user is picking the date he will see that the default is always the first date.
how shall i do it ?
thanks in advanced
Naama

Hello Naama,
Now you are actually raising a new issue of date validation, which should pertains to every date field on your application.
>> the problem is that the function is not returning Boolean
It seems to me that you are mixing Computations and Validations. The first can set the value of an item; the second can raise an application error and include options of using a function that returns Boolean or an error text.
The problem in your specific case is that you need to validate the date prior to using it in your Computation, however the APEX engine fires Computations before Validations. The solution might be to use a PL/SQL process with a firing point of “On Submit – Before Computations and Validations”.
As I mentioned before, date validation should apply to all your application date items. Personally, I’m using a client side validation, fired by an onblur event, to give the user a “fair warning”. The following code matches your date format, and I’m using it in a Right-To-Left application (In the example it includes Hebrew error messages that can be changed to any text in any language you need). This function can deal with a fully formatted date string (e.g. 31/01/2010) or a string of numbers representing the date (e.g. 31012010).
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    alert('מספר הימים אינו חוקי');
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if (YYYY < 1900 || YYYY > 2050){
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     pThis.focus();
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if (MM == 2) {
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      alert('מספר הימים בפברואר אינו חוקי');
      pThis.focus();
      return false;
else {
    if (DD > monthDays[MM]) {
      alert('מספר הימים בחודש זה אינו חוקי');
      pThis.focus();
      return false;
if (DD < 10) { DD = '0'+DD; }
if (MM < 10) { MM = '0'+MM; }
pThis.value = DD+'/'+MM+'/'+YYYY;
return true;
function trimLead0(str) {
   return str.replace(/^0*/g,"");
}Best Practice stipulates that client side validation is not enough and you should use server side validations. In your specific case, if an end user tricked the client side validation he/she deserves to receive a system error message. Still, if you want to prevent it, you need to add some PL/SQL code that validates the input date before you use it in your Computation.
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Current date, first day of month, last day of month, current week, current

Hi All,
may be the question will sounds basic for your guys, I am connecting via MDX a cognos reportnet on a BW 3.0B..due to loads of limitations on filtering via MDX on 'business date/time functions' , I would need to create in the infoqueries that are my data sources, the following additionnal objects:
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- last day of current month
- current week
- current year
I do not want prefiltered infoqueiries but object with these single values so that from reportnet I can have something like: OCALDAY between 'first day of current month' and 'last day of curent month'
Is there standard fonction for this under BW/BEX or if we need to developp functions has nayone some code examples.
thanks a lot for your great input
David

Hi,
In universe level if you want implement the requirede functions then you have to write custom sql and if you want to implement them in Reporting level then most of the functions are available to you. e.g. Quarter,Month, Year, Current Date....
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Set default values in date prompt

Hello,
I have tried everything I can find in the forum to resolve a very daunting task. Thanks in advance for all your help.
We have Crystal Server 2008 with Tomcat and IIS.
I have several reports that use start date and end date as parameters. When the user launches the report date prompt dialog box appears where you user can input the values. Typically (75% ) the user is always looking for yesterday's data however at times he/she would want to pick different date range to review the results. The requirement is to set the default values in the dialogbox to be currentdate-1. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Our mnemonics are of the form [PY]{P|C}{D|W|M|Q|Y}[DOW][{+|-}n], where [PY] is optional to specify a prior year date (for comparison reports), P=Prior, C=Current, D=Day, W=Week, M=Month, Q-Quarter, Y=Year, [DOW] is optional, and used with [PY] to specify that you are looking for the same day of week in the prior year (if CD=8/24/09, PYCDDOW=8/25/08), and the +n or -n allows you to add or subtract days/weeks/months/quarters/years (depending on the interval used) to the date.
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Can you set a default value using Data Mover Scripts?

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We're going through a upgrade of PS Fin 8.9 -> 9.1. We've found some existing tables with new columns that are marked as NOT NULL so we're having trouble migrating the data using DMS.
Is there a way to Export the data from 8.9 and when importing into 9.1, set a default value for the new column using DMS?
A specific example would be the PS_SOURCE_TBL where EXCHANGE_RATE_OPTN is new and NOT NULL.
Thanks for any assistance.

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Set default value for date/time to previous month

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I have two date/time parameters in my report and I want to set the default value for both the parameters
For start date parameter I want the first date of previous month and for end date parameter I want the last date of previous month.
Can someone please point me to the right direction
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Rone

Hi Rone,
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Default posting date on first WD of month

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DATE FOR FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK

I am new to Oracle and am looking for a procedure that will calculate the first day of the week given today's date.
Given 1/23/2000 I need to find Sunday 1/21/2000.

Hi there,
I don't think there's a built-in Oracle procedure for what you want. However...
In SQL (at least, Oracle's SQL), you have the function TO_CHAR and TO_DATE that allow you to convert a date to a string and vice-versa. They work pretty much in a similar way, that is :
TO_<something>( <data_to_convert>, <format> )
eg.: To have the day of the week for the current date, you can do
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To have the day of the year, you would do
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In one ugly line, you could do this by doing the following :
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Eurk.
Or you could write a function that would return the date of the first day of the week of a specific date, like :
create or replace
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IS
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BEGIN
R_FDOW := to_date( (to_char(P_DATE,'YYYY') | | to_char( to_number( to_char(P_DATE,'DDD')) - to_number( to_char(P_DATE,'D')) + 1)),'YYYYDDD');
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HI!
Why does the following method do not return the date of the first day of the week in which the given date lies?
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new GregorianCalendar(year, month, date).getInstance();
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What I want the method to do:
year = 2003
month = Calendar.JANUARY
date = 8
==> GregCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) == Calendar.WEDNESDAY
==> GregCalendar.roll(Calendar.DATE, false);
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==> GregCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) == Calendar.TUESDAY
==> GregCalendar.roll(Calendar.DATE, false);
==> GregCalendar.get(Calendar.DATE) == 6
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But in reality, it always returns 6 grrrrrrrr
What is wrong wirh it?
Yours RB

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