Hello, Thanks for your suggestions, but I am getting the following error... Caused by: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression : Source text : new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse($F{startDate}) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JREvaluator.evaluate(JREvaluator.java:195) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.evaluate(JRCalculator.java:589) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.evaluate(JRCalculator.java:557) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElement.evaluateExpression(JRFillElement.java:929) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillTextField.evaluateText(JRFillTextField.java:383) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillTextField.evaluate(JRFillTextField.java:368) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementContainer.evaluate(JRFillElementContainer.java:258) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillBand.evaluate(JRFillBand.java:499) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillColumnBand(JRVerticalFiller.java:2036) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillDetail(JRVerticalFiller.java:760) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReportStart(JRVerticalFiller.java:270) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:128) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:946) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:864) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillSubreport.fillSubreport(JRFillSubreport.java:613) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRSubreportRunnable.run(JRSubreportRunnable.java:59) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRThreadSubreportRunner.run(JRThreadSubreportRunner.java:205) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "20111014 145300" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337) I tried substring option to just take "20111014". Even this gives the same error. When i want to preview, how do I set "XML_DATE_PATTERN" in ireport? Thanks