How to Change the Date format to custom one in OBIEE

Step1: Select any Date column into answers next Clck on column properties






Step2: Next select the Data Format tab (3rd one) Check in the Override the Default Data Format here u can select any format or select Custom



Step3: Here i am changing date format to MONTHNAME-YY(January-10)









Step4: In the below picture first column is the normal format and next column is custom one (MMMM-YY)







NOTE: We can use this to elimate the CAST function used to convert the timestamp to Date format.