Validation of input parameters in Oracle BI Publisher reports

Hi
I am new to Oracle Bi Publisher.
In my project i am using oracle BIPfor generating simple reports.
here i need validation for input parameters (Date field) and i want to make it (Date field) disable, so that user can select the date through the Calendar component only.
Can anyone please provide me the solution in detail, it is urgent.

I have the same task to validate input parameters with Oracle BI Publisher 5.6.3 running under Oracle eBS 10.5.10.2. My validation goes beyond of what I can do during parameter registration. I am using Data Templates.
My first logical place was the before report trigger. So, I built a report trigger which returns 'false' in case the parameters are not proper. Guess what... XMLP just returns a hard-coded message
!!Error : trigger '" + datatrigger.getName() + "' returns status as 'false'
First of all, this is a bad style to hardcode messages visible by the user (especially during French implementation). Second of all, it is not informative at all. It would be nice to change oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.executeTrigger() to read, for example, a message from the message stack when the trigger returns 'false' and let the user read it.
Anyway, what I did was I built a special data group, decalred before any other data group, query like
select my_package.my_validation fro dual
If parameters fail the validation my PL/SQL package throws an application exception with a message. At least, in this case the error message gets available as the description of the concurrent request.
I wish the before report trigger worked!!!

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Hi
i am new to Oracle BI Publisher
I am using OBI for generating simple reports.
here i need validation for input parameters (Date Parameter) and also want to disable the Date filed so that user can select through the calendar component.
Here validation in the sense, the system must validate the date and alert the user with an appropriate message
Can anyone please provide me the solution in detail.
Thanks in advance
Edited by: user10185520 on Aug 26, 2008 6:15 AM

I have the same task to validate input parameters with Oracle BI Publisher 5.6.3 running under Oracle eBS 10.5.10.2. My validation goes beyond of what I can do during parameter registration. I am using Data Templates.
My first logical place was the before report trigger. So, I built a report trigger which returns 'false' in case the parameters are not proper. Guess what... XMLP just returns a hard-coded message
!!Error : trigger '" + datatrigger.getName() + "' returns status as 'false'
First of all, this is a bad style to hardcode messages visible by the user (especially during French implementation). Second of all, it is not informative at all. It would be nice to change oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.executeTrigger() to read, for example, a message from the message stack when the trigger returns 'false' and let the user read it.
Anyway, what I did was I built a special data group, decalred before any other data group, query like
select my_package.my_validation fro dual
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I wish the before report trigger worked!!!

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