Siebel BIP Parameterized Report Date Comparison

Question

Hello,
we are working on a Siebel/BI Publisher integration and are using parameterized reports.
In the parameters we would like to enter 2 dates, "From" and "To" date to receive eg all Service Requests (from an employee) in this timeframe.
<?param@begin: ’string’?> Problem is that date is not working?
We also tried to achieve this with this function but were not sucesfull yet:
xdoxslt: date_diff ... psfn: getCanonicalDate
Main Problem is to get the Date from the parameters into the report.
How can i achieve this, is there any best practice out there?
Thanks,
D.

Answer 1

Hi BIPuser:
Thanks for the response.The link provides on how to convert the Siebel date data but not enough details on passing the start date and end date which is then compared with Siebel date data( In our case Activity Creation Date).We are working on generating reports from Siebel through Integration with BI Publisher. In the parameters we would like to enter 2 dates, "From" and "To" date. I have declared the parameter in RTF as <?param@begin: StartDate;'mm/dd/yyyy';'Date'?>. From Siebel able to get the parameter declared passed onto Paramater applet. When I enter Start Date which is passed as string rather than date. We want to pass the start date and end date as date parameter and then compare it with creation date which is coming from XML (Data Field) and filter records based on the start date and end date. How can we achieve this. Please suggest.