Static Variable using Dynamic Variable

Question

I have a need to display different variations of the current date across multiple reports - for example: YYYYMM, MMYYYY, YYYYDD, etc.
I thought I could create an initialization block that maps three variables containing - YYYY, MM and DD.
In the Static Variable I was going to do the different concatenation of these variables. I see in the Static Variable it allows me to go in and select repository variables in the Expression Builder, so if had two Dyanmic Variables (VarYYYY and VarMM) I select these for my new Static Variable and concatenate them (Valueof(VarYYYY) || Valueof(VarMM).
However, when I go to the report and display this variable it displays just the text above, treating it like a string value, so all I see in the report is:
Valueof("VarYYYY") || Valueof("VarMM")
I am referencing in the report with the syntax
@{biServer.variables['StaticVarName']}
Is there a reason why it does not display the variable values?
Thanks

Answer 1

mmm some solution could be to write the same insert with decode/case statement and put there the conditions that you want.
maybe something like this:
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  begin
  2    for i in 1..10 loop
  3      insert into t1 (col1,col2,col3)
  4        values (i,
  5                decode (mod (i,2),0,i,null),
  6                decode (mod (i,3),0,i,null));
  7    end loop;
  8* end;
SQL> /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from t1;
      COL1       COL2       COL3
         1
         2          2
         3                     3
         4          4
         5
         6          6          6
         7
         8          8
         9                     9
        10         10
10 rows selected.
SQL> truncate table t1;
Table truncated.
SQL> insert into t1 (col1,col2,col3)
  2    select rownum,
  3           decode (mod (rownum,2),0,rownum,null),
  4           decode (mod (rownum,3),0,rownum,null)
  5    from dual
  6  connect by rownum <=10;
10 rows created.
SQL> select * from t1;
      COL1       COL2       COL3
         1
         2          2
         3                     3
         4          4
         5
         6          6          6
         7
         8          8
         9                     9
        10         10
10 rows selected.forgot that you are not using anymore the loop :)
Message was edited by:
Delfino Nunez