issue with date display

[Former Member]

hi

i have defined a selection screen for my dialog with a field of DATE type. at runtime. when i choose the value pressing F4, it appears as 10/16/2008. Then when i press the generate button, vaildation takes place and it fails as no records exists matching this date. But then, this date now appears in the same field as 6//20/10/1.

Whats happening ? Can i anyway control the format of the date field in select option ??

thks

[Former Member]

some thing wrong with the design of the screen field.

in the screen field attributes for the date field in the popup change the format to DATS , i guess it is Char format now.

check that and let me know..

[Former Member]

hiii

i think it is a format of date which is stored in memory..but you can use some code to display same date format again...

just store date as

w_date = '10/16/2008'. or use parameter like p_date.

then you can use condition like below in

at selection-screen output event.

if p_date is initial.

p_date = w_date.

i hope it works.try using it.

regards

twinkal