Problem with datetime expression

I have the following expression in a textbox in a table based on a dataset:
=IIF(Fields!Opened.Value="No","No",Format(Fields!Opened.Value,"yyyy-MM-dd
HH:mm:ss"))
The result I recieve when there is supposed to be a date is the date
mask (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss) instead of the actual value of the date.
Any ideas?
Best regards,
Peter!On Dec 7, 7:17 am, Peter Larsson <scape...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following expression in a textbox in a table based on a dataset:
> =IIF(Fields!Opened.Value="No","No",Format(Fields!Opened.Value,"yyyy-MM-dd
> HH:mm:ss"))
> The result I recieve when there is supposed to be a date is the date
> mask (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss) instead of the actual value of the date.
> Any ideas?
> Best regards,
> Peter!
I assume that Fields!Opened.Value is a string value (because you are
using it twice there) that either contains the text "No" or a Date.
Try wrapping the second Value in a CDate() function to force a
conversion to DateTime. If the Format command is fed a value that it
can't convert, it returns the formatting string, not the value.
= IIF( Fields!Opened.Value = "No", "No", Format( CDate(Fields!
Opened.Value), "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") )
-- Scott|||Orne wrote:
> On Dec 7, 7:17 am, Peter Larsson <scape...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I have the following expression in a textbox in a table based on a dataset:
>> =IIF(Fields!Opened.Value="No","No",Format(Fields!Opened.Value,"yyyy-MM-dd
>> HH:mm:ss"))
>> The result I recieve when there is supposed to be a date is the date
>> mask (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss) instead of the actual value of the date.
>> Any ideas?
>> Best regards,
>> Peter!
> I assume that Fields!Opened.Value is a string value (because you are
> using it twice there) that either contains the text "No" or a Date.
> Try wrapping the second Value in a CDate() function to force a
> conversion to DateTime. If the Format command is fed a value that it
> can't convert, it returns the formatting string, not the value.
> = IIF( Fields!Opened.Value = "No", "No", Format( CDate(Fields!
> Opened.Value), "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") )
> -- Scott
Hi Scott!
Thanks for the tip, now the date works but I get the #Error on the When
the value contains "No".
/Peter|||On Dec 7, 11:05 am, Peter Larsson <scape...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Orne wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 7:17 am, Peter Larsson <scape...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have the following expression in a textbox in a table based on a dataset:
> >> =IIF(Fields!Opened.Value="No","No",Format(Fields!Opened.Value,"yyyy-MM-dd
> >> HH:mm:ss"))
> >> The result I recieve when there is supposed to be a date is the date
> >> mask (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss) instead of the actual value of the date.
> >> Any ideas?
> >> Best regards,
> >> Peter!
> > I assume that Fields!Opened.Value is a string value (because you are
> > using it twice there) that either contains the text "No" or a Date.
> > Try wrapping the second Value in a CDate() function to force a
> > conversion to DateTime. If the Format command is fed a value that it
> > can't convert, it returns the formatting string, not the value.
> > = IIF( Fields!Opened.Value = "No", "No", Format( CDate(Fields!
> > Opened.Value), "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") )
> > -- Scott
> Hi Scott!
> Thanks for the tip, now the date works but I get the #Error on the When
> the value contains "No".
> /Peter- Hide quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
Ok, just made some test data. I think that the second half of the IIF
statement is still being evaluated, and for those rows where the value
is "No", the CDate is failing, therefore the whole IIF is failing.
So, before we do the CDate, we have to check again if the value is a
non-convertable date, then if it is not convertable, set it to
Nothing. CDate(Nothing) is still Nothing, so then the second half of
the IIF would succeed.
The following works the way I think you want it to:
=IIF( Fields!Opened.Value = "No", "No", Format( CDate( IIF(Fields!
Opened.Value = "No", Nothing, Fields!Opened.Value) ), "yyyy-MM-dd
HH:mm:ss" ) )
-- Scott