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Formatting Date fields in SSRS reports

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Hello. Any date field from Dynamics 365 that I bring in to an SSRS report with a FetchXML data set, is not recognized as a date. I can display the data without any issue, but I can't format the field to some how convert the string into a date field. I suspect it has to do with the time value in the field.

I have tried the formula:
=Format(CDate(Left(Fields!createdon.Value,10)))

This works with many of the values, but unfortunatley, not all of the values (perhaps because they don't have a time in the date field?)

Below is an example of the above column, and the data without any formatting. I can't see a reason for why the formula would work on some of the values, but not the others. This is the "Created On" field that is in all entities.

I would appreciate suggestions for how to solve this. Thank you!

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RE: Formatting Date fields in SSRS reports

Interesting. Though I'm not using an IF function here. My goal is just to sort by date, which I can't do if the date can't be formatted as such.

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RE: Formatting Date fields in SSRS reports

Hi,

Some values in an expression can evaluate to null or undefined at report processing time. This can create run-time errors that result in #Error displaying in the text box instead of the evaluated expression. The IIF function is particularly sensitive to this behavior because, unlike an If-Then-Else statement, each part of the IIF statement is evaluated (including function calls) before being passed to the routine that tests for true or false. The statement =IIF(Fields!Sales.Value is NOTHING, 0, Fields!Sales.Value) generates #Error in the rendered report if Fields!Sales.Value is NOTHING.

Please refer to the following section which may help you.

Suppressing Null or Zero Values at Run Time

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