Date formatting in ssrs

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Hello friends,
I'm getting LastActivityDate column from the stored procedure.
when i bind that column in SSRS report it gives error, if the column has no or null value.

I tried with following

=iif((Fields!LastActivityDate.Value = ""),"",format(cdate(Fields!LastActivityDate.Value),"dd-MM-yyyy"))

but it still not working, give #error when report is run for null values.

Any idea where I'm going wrong..?

Thanks in advance =)

Posted 27-Aug-12 0:03am

dhage.prashant01

Updated 7-Mar-17 0:38am

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Kuthuparakkal · Answer 1 · 2012-08-27T00:30:00

Solution 1

change to:
=iif((Fields!LastActivityDate.Value = Nothing),"",format(cdate(Fields!LastActivityDate.Value),"dd-MM-yyyy"))

Posted 27-Aug-12 0:30am

Kuthuparakkal

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dhage.prashant01 27-Aug-12 6:56am

Still its giving the same error.. :(

Kuthuparakkal 27-Aug-12 7:02am

Make sure LastActivityDate conforms VBA datestring format:
Conversion Result
---------- ------
CDate("May 14 1977") 14/05/1977

CDate("14/May/1977") 14/05/1977

CDate("14/05/1977") 14/05/1977

CDate("05/14/1977") 14/05/1977

CDate(0) 12:00:00 AM

CDate(-1) 29/12/1899

dhage.prashant01 28-Aug-12 2:09am

i have handled the same in backend, its working fine.

Sandeep Mewara · Answer 2 · 2012-08-27T01:10:00

Solution 2

Try:

VB

=iif((Fields!LastActivityDate.Value Is Nothing),"No-Date", FORMAT(CDate(Fields!LastActivityDate.Value),"dd-MM-yyyy"))

Posted 27-Aug-12 1:10am

Sandeep Mewara

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dhage.prashant01 27-Aug-12 7:23am

Still same issue
if i replace some other date field in
FORMAT(CDate(Fields!LastActivityDate.Value),"dd-MM-yyyy")

It works fine, but referring same field gives error.

Any idea, y so??

Sandeep Mewara 27-Aug-12 7:49am

Might be your 'this' date field is not null. Check the query what is being returned for the field.

dhage.prashant01 28-Aug-12 2:09am

i have handled the same in backend, its working fine.

Member 13028759 · Answer 3 · 2017-03-07T00:38:00

Solution 4

I have handled in query part of dataset itself and then binding it to report

Posted 7-Mar-17 0:38am

Member 13028759

Updated 7-Mar-17 0:39am

v2

thilanosanda · Answer 4 · 2016-09-27T08:00:00

Solution 3

=FORMAT(CDate(IIf(CSTR(Fields!EMP_REVISED_END_DATE.Value)="","1900-01-01",Fields!EMP_REVISED_END_DATE.Value)),"dd-MMM-yyyy"))

Posted 27-Sep-16 8:00am

thilanosanda

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Richard Deeming 27-Sep-16 15:14pm

Four years and one month late to the party, and your "solution" doesn't even match the question!