Issues with Prompts date

Question

Hi,
I have created two date calender prompts from the same date column of the time dimension 'from date' and 'to date' and saved those into Presentation variables.
I have to show 'amount' into one column(say opening amount) if transaction date is before 'from date'. and into another column (say debit) when transaction date is after 'from date'.When in criteria tab I try to enter the formula something like (case when transaction_date > @{from_date} then amount end) it is giving me error.
nQSError: 46030] Field descriptor id 0 is beyond the maximum field count 0
Can anyone has come across the same issue?
Regards,
Vikas

Answer 1

Please don't change anything to OBIEE.
You must do the difference between the data type date and date format.
When you create a dashboard prompt with a date column and you set up a presentation variable. The presentation variable take the same data type. It become a date.
The format is specifically the work of BI Presentation service to take this date and to transform it in the way that want the user (depending of the language).
What I would say, is that you must set up in the default value of the filter also a date (and therefore not a character).
Unfortunately when you enter this :
DAY is greater than or equal to @{from_date}{1990/6/6}Obiee see it as a character
And what I have discover is that if you want a date the cast function don't follow the format depending of the configuration, you have to use this format :
DAY is greater than or equal to @{from_date}{cast('1990-06-06' as date)}In this way, you will have two datea where the format change when you change the local definition (to French for instance) in your account profile.
You can also use this form :
DAY is greater than or equal to @{from_date}{date '1990-06-06'}Edited by: gerardnico on Jun 24, 2009 7:38 PM - suppress a bad bracket