Using Select Expert Criteria in a Report Title

Post Author: kevinday17
CA Forum: Formula
Hello,
I can't quite figure out how to get a select expert criteria in my report title.
My title is "Sales by Customer from Jan 1, 2007 to Aug 31, 2007" but I want to be able to have the dates in that title reflect what the user has given as parameters.
So if the user selects July 31, 2007 as the end date, I would like the title to reflect that. I'm less concerned about the format of the date that how to bring it into that text area.
Thanks,
Kevin

Post Author: yangster
CA Forum: Formula
oh you are not using parameters to do the date selection (i'm guessing you have a reason for this)simplest way for you to achieve what you want would be to create a couple of formula within your report and use those instead of your hard coded dates@begin_dateDATETIME(2007, 08, 01, 00, 00, 00)@end_dateDATETIME(2007, 08, 31, 00, 00, 00)@report_title"Sales by Customer from "& @begin_date &" to "&@end_datein the selection expert put in{SOP30200.DOCDATE} in @begin_date to @end_dateso if you wanted to modify the start and end range change the values inside the 2 formulas, your report title will reflect the changes but this really should be done with parameters to allow more flexibility (but i leave that up to you to decide)

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