Question

I have some working reports that must be deployed on SSRS. One more customization that I want to be added is to automatically select the FromDate as today – 1 month, and ToDate as today.

Specifically, I want to replace the fragment bellow with a piece that accomplish the requirements above:

 <ReportParameter Name='FromDate'>   <DataType>String</DataType>   <DefaultValue>     <Values>       <Value>[Date].&amp;[2008-09-26T00:00:00]</Value>     </Values>   </DefaultValue>   <Prompt>From Date</Prompt>   <ValidValues>     <DataSetReference>       <DataSetName>FromDate2</DataSetName>       <ValueField>ParameterValue</ValueField>       <LabelField>ParameterCaption</LabelField>     </DataSetReference>   </ValidValues> </ReportParameter> <ReportParameter Name='ToDate'>   <DataType>String</DataType>   <Prompt>To Date</Prompt>   <ValidValues>     <DataSetReference>       <DataSetName>ToDate</DataSetName>       <ValueField>ParameterValue</ValueField>       <LabelField>ParameterCaption</LabelField>     </DataSetReference>   </ValidValues> </ReportParameter> 

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Replace the hard-coded

[Date].&[2008-09-26T00:00:00] 

to formula

=DateAdd('m', -1, Now) 

For ‘ToDate’, just pass a formula that returns current date

=Now 

Now the result looks something like this.

<ReportParameters>     <ReportParameter Name='FromDate'>         <DataType>DateTime</DataType>         <DefaultValue>         <Values>             <Value>=DateAdd('m', -1, Now)</Value>         </Values>         </DefaultValue>         <AllowBlank>true</AllowBlank>         <Prompt>FromDate</Prompt>     </ReportParameter>     <ReportParameter Name='ToDate'>         <DataType>DateTime</DataType>         <DefaultValue>         <Values>             <Value>=Now</Value>         </Values>         </DefaultValue>         <AllowBlank>true</AllowBlank>         <Prompt>ToDate</Prompt>     </ReportParameter> </ReportParameters> 

[UPDATE]
It looks like I have forgotten to paste <ReportParameters> correctly for ToDate; it’s updated. Above RDL was generated by configuring Report Parameter. This is how I have configured date in GUI.

• FromDate:
  

• ToDate: