Passing between date paramters to a different page in the application

Question

Hi,
I'm woking on a drill down report in Apex 4.0.
Page1: (standard Report)
select transactiondate, storenumber, count(amount) as Count from transactions (transactiondate data type is DATE).
Created two items :P1_From_Date and :P1_To_Date
When i run the Page1 with the from_date and to_date given, reports populate the data for the particular date,(eg: 15-NOV-2011).
Until this point everything is fine.
In Page 2, I need to show the detail of every transactions for a particular store.
Created a hidden item in page 2 as :P2_storenumber
created a link on the Count column in Page1, select :P2-storenumber corresponding to the #COUNT#
Query on page 2 is : select transactiondate, storenumber,amount from transactions
here i want to get the transaction for a day (between 15-NOV-2011 00:00 and 15-NOV-2011 23:59 ).
How can I accomplish this requirement, by passing the date parameters from the Page1 for any date in Page2.
Please help.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi user13561710,
Assuming the items on page 1 are populated with date values, you can simply reference them in the query on page 2:
select transactiondate, storenumber,amount from transactions where storenumber = :P2_storenumber and transaction_date between :P1_from_date and :P1_to_date
If need be, you could always explicitly convert the date items to a date (and not rely upon the implicit conversion), for example:
select transactiondate, storenumber,amount from transactions where storenumber = :P2_storenumber and transaction_date between to_date(:P1_from_date,'DD-MON-RRRR') and to_date(:P1_to_date,'DD-MON-RRRR')
assuming the formart of the date value on page 1 is DD-MON-RRRR.
I hope this helps.
Joel