how to gather the form info in koolreport?

I am using koolreport. At some point I need the user to tell me what year they want the report generated for. I was told to include this in the top of the report. But other than the date being formatted correctly, I have no idea how use the date that was entered. Is this posting back to the server? Can anyone point me to the easiest way to have a user enter a date in CI?




form method="post">
    <?php \koolreport\inputs\DateTimePicker::create(array("name" => "dateRange","format"=>"YYYYMM")); ?>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

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