formatting number fields

a big thank you to Mike for finding this  here is a very useful blog posting on formatting number fields  which dosent seem to work quite as well as it should in word when designing rtf templates Number Formatting Linky

BI Publisher Date functions

Big Shout out to Jamie on this one :)   I hadn't really had to look for these before but as well as the Date field in the properties bit of the XML which i think shows the date the XML is created   there's also this cracking list of  Date functions out there that i think are going to come in really reallyBIP Date Functions Type Linky !!! useful