According to "The Jasper Reports Ultimate Guide", when specifying the value of the pattern attribute for Date values to be displayed in TextField elements, one can use either a specific pattern that could otherwise be supplied to java.text.SimpleDateFormat OR one can use two "style" values separated by a comma such as "Short", "Long", "Medium" or "Default". I found an example of this usage in the sample code that came with JasperReports as follows: Code: <textField pattern="medium,hide"> But when I try to fill a report based on this JRXML, I get the following message as part of an IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'e'" Is there some other setting or parameter I need to specify in order to use these generic styles instead of a specific pattern for dates? My software runs in several different locales and I would enjoy the convenience these generic styles would supply rather than having to pre-format my date values.
