Reporting Services Remove Time from DateTime in Expression

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I m trying to populate an expression  default value of a parameter  with an explicit time  How do I remove the time from the the  now  function

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Since SSRS utilizes VB  you can do the following    Today    returns date only   If you were to use    Now    returns date and current timestamp

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My solution for a Date Time parameter    CDate Today      The trick is to convert back to a DateTime as recommend Perhentian

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Just use DateValue Now  if you want the result to be of DateTime data type

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Just concatenate a string to the end of the value   Fields  lt your field gt  Value  amp       test     and this should work

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I m coming late in the game but I tried all of the solutions above  couldn t get it to drop the zero s in the parameter and give me a default  it ignored the formatting or appeared blank   I was using SSRS 2005 so was struggling with its clunky   buggy issues   My workaround was to add a column to the custom  DimDate  table in my database that I was pulling dates from  I added a column that was a string representation in the desired format of the  date  column  I then created 2 new Datasets in SSRS that pulled in the following queries for 2 defaults for my  To   amp   From  date defaults -   from       SELECT  Datestring     FROM    dbo dimDate     WHERE    date      SELECT   MAX date                         FROM     dbo dimdate                        WHERE    date  lt  DATEADD month  -3  GETDATE                             to       SELECT  Datestring     FROM    dbo dimDate     WHERE    date      SELECT   MAX date                         FROM     dbo dimdate                        WHERE    date  lt   GETDATE

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Found the solution from here  This gets the last second of the previous day   DateAdd  s  -1 DateAdd  d  1 Today      This returns the last second of the previous week    dateadd  d   -Weekday Now    DateAdd  s  -1 DateAdd  d  1 Today

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FormatDateTime Parameter StartDate Value

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In the format property of any textbox field you can use format strings   e g  D M Y  D  etc

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This should be done in the dataset  You could do this  Select CAST CAST YourDateTime as date  AS Varchar 11   as DateColumnName   In SSRS Layout  just do this  Fields DateColumnName Value

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If you have to display the field on report header then try this    RightClick on Textbox   Properties   Category   date   select  Format  Note this will maintain the regional settings    Since this question has been viewed many times  I m posting it    Hope it helps

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Something like this    FormatDateTime Now  DateFormat ShortDate     Where  Now  can be replaced by the name of the date time field that you re trying to convert   For instance     FormatDateTime Fields StartDate Value  DateFormat ShortDate

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If expected data format is MM-dd-yyyy then try below    CDate Now  ToString  MM-dd-yyyy     Similarly you can try this one    Format Today    MM-dd-yyyy      Output  02-04-2016  Note  Now   will show you current date and time stamp   Today   will show you Date only not time part    Also you can set any date format instead of MM-dd-yyyy in my example

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One thing that might help others is that you can place   CDate Now  ToString  dd MM yyyy   in the Format String Property of SSRS which can be obtained by right clicking the column  That is the cleanest way to do it  Then your expression won t be too large and difficult to visually  parse

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CDate Now  ToString  dd MM yyyy     Although you are hardcoding the date formart to a locale

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