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Asked: 2026-05-21T02:14:07+00:00

Long time reader etc, I’ve a TFS report that I want to alter the

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Long time reader etc,

I’ve a TFS report that I want to alter the sorting on by date. The problem is the sort only seems to consider the day element and the rest isn’t considered. For example, the following is happening:

1/7/2011
1/7/2011
1/7/2011
2/12/2010
3/03/2011
3/03/2011

I’ve looked for a way to specify the datatype on the box in the table but to no avail. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve realised the field was being treated as text as the date in question isn’t guaranteed to be there and replaced with an empty string if it wasn’t.

    Two steps have fixed the problem:

    Added calculated field to dataset and wrapped an iif around to deal with missing dates as being way off in the future.

    =CDate(IIf(IsDate(Fields!My_Date.Value), Fields!My_Date.Value, DateAdd(DateInterval.Year, 10,Now)))

    This then forces the field to be treated as a date. I then added a sort on the group on this calculated field which isn’t shown in the report and gives the impression that those items with a date get ordered and the rest are left to the other layers of sorting which is correct.

    Is there a better way of doing this?

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