Another Date Picker question

I created a report with two parameters, StartDate and EndDate.

They are specified as datetime type.

When I went to the Preview tab, there were date pickers for both values.

After a week or so of using the report, I thought it would be better if I gave the parameters default values. I spent some time reading what others had done in this forum and used the following as the expressions for the parameters:

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=IIF(Weekday(Today()) =1, FormatDateTime(Today(),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =2, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-1),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =3, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-2),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =4, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-3),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =5, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-4),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =6, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-5),2), FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-6),2)))))))

=IIF(Weekday(Today()) =1, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(6),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =2, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(5),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =3, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(4),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =4, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(3),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =5, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(2),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =6, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(1),2), FormatDateTime(Today(),2)))))))

and now, there are no date pickers. I am curious. Why are they gone? Can I get them back and still have my default values?

Thanks,

IanO

Try removing the FormatDateTime function.|||

Thanks for your reply. Allow me to explain why the Format is there.

When I had not specified default values for the report parameters, the date pickers provided values that were dates only - no time values. After I put in the IIFs for the default values, the defaults included 12:00:00 AM with the date.

I hunted for quite a while and the solution that I chose was the Format. Perhaps you have another idea of how I can have a default Sunday and a default Saturday for the current week, without the time?

Thanks,

IanO

|||It's odd that the default values gave you a time. I used it here and had only date values. Hmmmm.|||If you want to keep the format text you should be able to add the cdate function.|||

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=CDATE(IIF(Weekday(Today()) =1, FormatDateTime(Today(),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =2, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-1),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =3, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-2),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =4, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-3),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =5, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-4),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =6, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-5),2), FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(-6),2))))))))

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=CDATE(IIF(Weekday(Today()) =1, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(6),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =2, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(5),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =3, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(4),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =4, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(3),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =5, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(2),2),
IIF(Weekday(Today()) =6, FormatDateTime(Today.AddDays(1),2), FormatDateTime(Today(),2))))))))

Then make sure your datatype is date because using just your original expression you get an error if the datatype is not a string.

Simone