title: why custom dateformats not working in oracle bi web service parameter?
body: <p>I am using <strong>Soap-UI</strong> to call <strong>Oracle-BI</strong> web service <code>runReport</code> to generate a report. Its working fine for reports with no report parameters. But when I am passing <code>Date</code> parameters with <code>dateFormatString</code> defined, the report doesn't show any result. Basically, as per my understanding, the web service can't parse the date correctly. Here's what I tried -</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;v2:parameterNameValues&gt;
     &lt;v2:listOfParamNameValues&gt;
        &lt;!--Other parameters--&gt;
        &lt;v2:item&gt;            
           &lt;v2:dataType&gt;Date&lt;/v2:dataType&gt;
           &lt;v2:dateFormatString&gt;dd-MM-yyyy&lt;/v2:dateFormatString&gt;
           &lt;v2:name&gt;val_from_dt_in&lt;/v2:name&gt;
           &lt;v2:values&gt;                        
              &lt;v2:item&gt;01-01-2013&lt;/v2:item&gt;
           &lt;/v2:values&gt;
        &lt;/v2:item&gt;
     &lt;v2:listOfParamNameValues&gt;
  &lt;v2:parameterNameValues&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>According to oracle docs, the <code>dateFormatString</code> parameter will take any <code>Java</code> date time format string. I have tried <code>dd-MMM-yyyy</code> and <code>yyyy-MM-dd</code> also. But it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me where I am doing wrong?</p>