How to display the current date in a field?

[2004 IR Help]

By: timtas - timtassonis

How to display the current date in a field?

2004-09-21 01:45

I'd like to display the current date (e.g. 21/09/04) in a field on the output, but found no way to do this, apart from having this value read from a database, or passing it as a parameter to the report. Is there no internal way to do this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By: Gregory A. Swarthout - gswarthout

RE: How to display the current date in a fiel

2004-09-21 08:14

new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy").format(new Date())

 

 

 

 

By: timtas - timtassonis

RE: How to display the current date in a fiel

2004-09-22 01:24

Thanks a lot, but I don't know where to put this in iReport.

 

Do I have to create a field of type java.lang.String and perhaps put

new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy").format(new Date())

 

in the field description?

 

 

 

 

 

 

By: timtas - timtassonis

RE: How to display the current date in a fiel

2004-09-22 02:03

Sorry, found out myself now:

 

I have to define a variable and put

new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy").format(new Date())

 

in the Variable Expression. Works fine now.