Aron's Tech Blog

So I was trying to do a replace null on two date fields and render it toChar yyyy-MM-dd and it kept giving me the lovely ‘SAX parsing error’, looking in the profiler I get this reason:
Timestamp format must be yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss[.fffffffff]
After rearranging the order of the toChar and replaceNull and still getting the same thing, I finally stumbled on the answer which was to declare the projection as a toChar by adding:
projectedField=”RuntimeString:toChar”
To the projection attributes.
I’m not 100% sure why this has to be done but it fixed the issue so figured I’d post it here.