Date formatting part of text in Jasper / ireports
问题 how do I format a date field (database field) displayed part of a text in Jasper / iReports (4.5.1) Displayed via a text field in the report... (using Groovy please) "Sub total for this date: " + $F(DEPOSIT_DATE) I have tried (new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy")).parse($F{DEPOSIT_DATE}) and I am getting error message: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression : Source text : (new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy")).parse($F{BANK_DATE}) What I want to