Getting records based on date entered by the user

Question

Gurus,
I have a valid to and valid from dates in ODS. The user is allowed to enter a date on the selection screen. If the user entered date lies in between Valid from and Valid to dates only these records need to be displayed in the report.
E.g.
ODS:
Valid From                   Valid to                       Functional Area
01/01/2009                  01/01/2099                             X
01/01/2010                  01/01/2011                             Y
01/01/2011                  01/01/2012                             Z
User Entered Date: 01/02/2010
Report Output:
X
Y
How do i do this? Appreciate your immedite assistance.
Thanks,
Ravi Ananthuni

Answer 1

Hi Ravi,
You can do this by using cust exit, but that would affect the query performance adversely.
I would suggest that you use condition in your report.
Include Valid to and valid from dates in your report layout. Make 2 replacement path type formula variables on these 2 dates.
And also the date you are entering in selection option, make it a formula variable ready for input.
Now make a CKF. In the calculation write:  (user date > valid from)AND(user date <valid to)*1.
And apply a condition to show only those rows where this CKF is 1.
The replacement path variables will work only when you have those 2 dates in the report layout. If you don't wanna do that , you can make 2 date type KFs and use them directly in calculation.
I hope this helps.
Best Wishes,
Mayank