To display Date prompts in narrative view

Hi,
I'm new to Obiee.I have created 'From Date' prompt (greater than or equal to ) and 'To date'(less than or equal to) prompts ,I was able to display the reports correctly ,What i need is to display the chosen dates in title of the report.How can i achieve this using Answers? (i.e)In title i need to display 'Pending Amount Between FromDate to ToDate '
Thanks in advance,
Princy

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.I was able to complete major part of my need.But the last thing i need is,
Using presentation variables i was able to display the dates correctly in Table View,but i'm able to display only the 'From Date' in my narrative view.I need to display the 'To Date' also in my narrative view.I had applied two filters (i.e;greater than or equal to presentation variable and less than or equal to presentation variable)in column 'Date' .
Since i'm using a single column 'Date' for prompts i dont know how to give the condition in narrative view to show the 'To Date' in narrative view which the user chooses from prompts.

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