Comments on: The DatePart() Function in SSRS

By: Margaret Norkett

Margaret Norkett — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:09:20 +0000

Thanks Luke — I had it figured out by the time you got this posted and my report looks great!

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:12:46 +0000

Hi Margaret,

Whoops. It seems I was in a bit of a rush yesterday. I have updated the previous comment with the correct expression.
I also noticed that I completely forgot to add the “Today()” bit to the SWITCH expression! Both expressions now work as expected.

By: Margaret Norkett

Margaret Norkett — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:29:07 +0000

I’m still getting an error about an expected “)” in the expression and although you didn’t code it that way, I’m using Today()) after the date interval statement as I need it to evaluate what month or quarter it is when the report runs so that it pulls back the relevant data for the corresponding quarter. This statement will also be used in the fields in the matrix to get the correct sums.

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:34:23 +0000

Hi Margaret,

Firstly, I noticed that your expression was missing a few brackets – after “Today()”, and your IIF() statements, like birds eggs, needed to be nested:
=IIF(DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today(),0,0) < 4, “4th Q PMs by Area, Type”,
IIF (DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today(),0,0) < 7, “1st Q PMs by Area, Type”,
IIF (DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today(),0,0) < 10, “2nd Q PMs by Area, Type”, “3rd Q PMs by Area, Type”)))

Secondly, this scenario would be better suited to using a SWITCH() function:

=SWITCH( DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today()) < 4, “4th Q PMs by Area, Type”, DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today()) < 7, “1st Q PMs by Area, Type”, DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today()) < 10, “2nd Q PMs by Area, Type”, DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today()) < 13, “3rd Q PMs by Area, Type”)

The SWITCH() Function evaluates each of the expressions in sequence and uses the first one that evaluates to ‘TRUE’.

Happy coding!

By: Margaret Norkett

Margaret Norkett — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:20:55 +0000

I’m trying to return a specific label based on what month a report is run in. I’ve put the following in the expression box, however I’m getting an “Overload resolution failed because no accessible ‘DatePart’ can be called without a narrowing conversion” error

IIF(DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today() between 1 and 3, “4th Q PMs by Area, Type”)
IIF (DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today() between 4 and 6, “1st Q PMs by Area, Type”)
IIF (DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today() between 7 and 9, “2nd Q PMs by Area, Type”)
IIF (DatePart(DateInterval.Month, Today() between 10 and 12, “3rd Q PMs by Area, Type”)

can you help direct me in correcting the expression in order to produce the label I need?

Thanks!

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:21:02 +0000

Thank you, Very Helpful!

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:24:05 +0000

Have you tried =Format(Fields!DateField.value, “d-MMM-yyyy”)?

have a look at http://thavash.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/date-formatting-in-reporting-services-list-of-format-codes/ for more on Date formatting codes.

By: subhash

subhash — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:55:49 +0000

i need to default a date parameter to this format
05-apr-2011(ie for today’s date)
can u please tell me how to do it

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:59:22 +0000

Hi Carole,

Could you send through the expression that you are using?

By: carole wilson

carole wilson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:47:59 +0000

I have six rooms which have classes scheduled weekly. I would like to see what the classes are by week. Show the class name, time, and instructor. The classes run over a range of dates. I would like to test if the current week falls within the range. The range could be 12/15/2010 to 3/15/2011. I cannot seem to get the DatePart function “ww” to work. Probably because I don’t understand it. I would appreciate all suggestions.