Using Parameter in Expression FIeld

[zgadson]

Hello. Have a question that I'm sure someone can answer easily.

I have a report with a date column in the text field:

new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy").format($F{Load.DateTime_PlannedStart})[/code]

And I have start/end parameters set to prompt upon report creation: $P{start_date} and $P{end_date}, both with java.sql.timestamp formatting to match the date field.

Is there a way to connect the parameters to my date field using the expression fields? (I don't have acess to metadata, so building sql code never seems to work for me, in addition to not knowing where to put it in the source of the report in the first place.)

 

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!