title: How to format a string to date in tibco spotfire
body: <p>I am unable to parse a string which looks like "04/20/2016" to date format in Tibco spotfire. Strings of format "04-20-2016" is been parsed to date when I use parseDate("04-20-2016","MM-dd-yyyy"), but the same function doesn't work for "04/20/2016" the result is just empty. </p>
  
  <p>I can simply use Date("04/20/2016") which successfully parses the string to 20-Apr-2016, but when I open the same in web Player its again empty, It works only when I open the .dxp file in my local machine.</p>