I would like to set the default date of a date prompt to todays date. Anyone know how to do this

 Thanks

Jezza,

I have asked around to a number of people at Daptiv and no one can figure out how to accomplish this.  The Create Date provides today's date for a dynamic application automatically but cannot be used for DateDiff calculations in dynamic applications because this function is not available.  The DateDiff calculation can be made by using the WI solution in a report and you can have the Create Date and other date fields in each entry to accomplish your needs. 

You can create a parameter in the filter section of the query that looks like this:

[Start Date] = ?current_date?

You can replace start date with whatever date field you want to use as the filter in the report:  ?current_date? is a function in cognos that returns the current date and the question marks define that as a parameter.  Then when you create the prompt page, reference this parameter in your date prompt and you will see the current date display as the default.

 Hope this answers your question.

Dave Allen