Autofill Date Parameters do not work when deployed to server

Good morning all,

I have a report which measures supplier performance for the previous month. It takes an age to generate so I am trying to cache a copy to a null location first thing in the morning to speed up the process. The problem I'm having is in getting the report to select the first day and last day of the month for the two parameters that the report needs to run.

In BIDS the report runs perfectly when previewed, however, when it is deployed to the report server I get the following error: 'Error during processing of ‘RP2’ report parameter. (rsReportParameterProcessingError)'

I have used the following two statements for the default values of the parameters, which work in BIDS, so I can't understand why they don't when it's deployed. I'm also sure there is an easier way of doing this, but after about an hour searching yesterday and not finding anything it only took me about half that time to use these statements:

for opening date:

=IIf(Month(Now()) = 1, CDate("01/12/" & CInt(Year(Now())-1)), IIf(Month(Now()) = 2, CDate("01/01/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 3, CDate("01/02/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(NOw()) = 4, CDate("01/03/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 5, CDate("01/04/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 6, CDate("01/05/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 7, CDate("01/06/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 8, CDate("01/07/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 9, CDate("01/08/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 10, CDate("01/09/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 11, Cdate("01/10/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 12, CDate("01/11/" & Year(Now())), CDate("01/12/1900")))))))))))))

for closing date (pretty similar really, this is the parameter with which the report server finds an error):

=IIf(Month(Now()) = 1, CDate("31/12/" & CInt(Year(Now())-1)), IIf(Month(Now()) = 2, CDate("31/01/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 3, CDate("28/02/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 4, CDate("31/03/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 5, CDate("30/04/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 6, CDate("31/05/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 7, CDate("30/06/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 8, CDate("31/07/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 9, CDate("31/08/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 10, CDate("30/09/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 11, CDate("31/10/" & Year(Now())), IIf(Month(Now()) = 12, CDate("30/11/" & Year(Now())), CDate("31/12/1900")))))))))))))

The only caviate to using these statements is that it wont recognise when a leap year occurs, other than that, if it would work when deployed to the report server it would work perfectly for the purposes of what we need.

If anyone can see the flaw, or knows of a better and easier way of doing this please let me know.

Humble thanks,

Paul

I think I've found out what is going on, just not sure how to fix it yet.

The problem is unique to me, everyone else can run the report from the report server and the auto date parameters work just fine.

When I built the report I used English United Kingdom as the default language, the report server's language is set as default to English United Kingdom, as is my machine. For some reason when I try to view the report it changes the date format to English US, or some other equivalent mm/dd/yyyy format and as there are only 12 months in a year the end date parameter falls over because it sees the day as being a month. However, no one else in our organisation has this problem and the report runs perfectly with the parameters being filled automatically as they should.

If I find the reason why my system default date format is being bypassed I'll post it on the forum in case anyone else encounters a similar problem.

Paul

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Okay, I've been a dumb schmuck, the language in Internet Explorer was set as English US, and as Reporting Services is a Web-based service it was using this information as the default language setting.

Since I've changed it to English UK everything works as it should.

Paul