Commented Issue: Date as a Conditional variable filter [11]

Atul,
Thank you so much for your solution. I have a couple of questions about how to properly construct the XML configuration: I can get my custom entity to load properly if I add the filter without the condition variable but cannot for the life of me get it to work once I add the variable. I value types of String, Enumeration, DateTime -- what could it be?

Please tell me where I am going wrong?

<Conditions>
<mapcondition text="Pickup Dates Since: ">
<condition attribute="new_pickupdate" operator="on-or-after" value="%{0}%" />
<value type="Date" default=""></value>
</mapcondition>
</Conditions>
Comments: Thanks, I did exactly that yesterday as a work around. -- now I have 12 Filter variables which all appear to work great ! Unfortunately, there isn't enough room on the filter bar and there isn't a scroll to get to the filters -- Any suggestion for that