Comments on: Using a “Magic Date” Value in Prompts

By: Prakhar T

Prakhar T — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:58:49 +0000

Hi Dave,

Very important requirement and superb explanation by you.

I was able to achieve this earlier on oracle/db2; however, date prompts coming through BeX are behaving a little differently. (Not exactly, but close to what Sanjit explained above in his comments)

So here is my problem, I have these reports that needs to be scheduled daily (for group 1 users), weekly (for group 2 users), bi-weekly (for group 3 users). No other prompt value changes except date. I am trying to implement ‘magic date’, but it doesn’t pick the right date; it picks the last manually selected date prompt value.

Any directions or insight would be really helpful.

Cheers,
PT

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:00:20 +0000

Hi, and welcome. Please see my other response above. You have to create a constant value (either a date, string, or number) and then in the logic of the prompt translate that constant into the maximum year/quarter/month as required.

By: Hemad

Hemad — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:25:08 +0000

Hi Dave,
Thanks for nice blog…
My reqquirement is to show max value (year/quarter/month) from date field of table as the defalut value in my prompt.
Kindly let me know is that possible. Thanks

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:11:35 +0000

Hi, that’s the point of this post. You cannot change the default value for a prompt via a formula, so creating a prompt that defaults to the date of today is not possible. The magic date is one possible option, and there are others presented in the comments on this post.

By: stalin

stalin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:12:39 +0000

Hi Dave,

I am new to Business objects and I am using BOXI2. I need today’s date needs to be selected by default. I gone through the above and i am unable to understand. I am using oracle database and X is table and y is column. I have set the prompt for column y but by defualt like this ‘Selec the Start Date: 31-Aug-2011′ needs to be seclected.

how can i achieve this.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:18:14 +0000

Glad to have helped.

By: ZicherCZ

ZicherCZ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:44:19 +0000

Hi Dave,
you seem to have managed to cover two of my greatest customer trouble within an hour. I stand in awe.
I’m going to test this approach tomorrow (on XIR3) – and if it works, then come to Ostrava, Czech Republic, and I owe you a beer or two .

By: Pawan Lodwal

Pawan Lodwal — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:59:10 +0000

I wanted the filter like in belo format
Today (Default)
Last week (Last 7 days)
Last 1 month
Last 3 months
Last 6 months
Last 12 months

and I got anster from your website thanks…see the below code to implements the above filter

@Select(Itrack Details\Event Date) = CASE @Prompt(’Enter Date Value or Special Code’,'A’,{’TODAY’,'Last week (Last 7 days)’,'Last 1 month’,'Last 3 month’,'Last 6 month’,'Last 12 month’},mono,free)

WHEN ‘01/01/1900 12:00:00 AM’ THEN getdate()
WHEN ‘TODAY’ THEN getdate()
WHEN ‘Last week (Last 7 days)’ THEN dateadd(dd,-1,getdate())
WHEN ‘Last 1 month’ THEN dateadd(mm,-1,getdate())
WHEN ‘Last 3 month’ THEN dateadd(mm,-3,getdate())
WHEN ‘Last 6 month’ THEN dateadd(mm,-6,getdate())
WHEN ‘Last 12 month’ THEN dateadd(mm,-12,getdate())

ELSE ”

END

many thanks to all of you for such a nice discussion

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:45:32 +0000

Hi, did you post the same question on BOB? I saw a number of topics with very similar questions recently. Such as this one.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:07:01 +0000

Hey Dave,

I’m looking to use an @prompt in a report, but take the value of the @prompt and use a between statement of that value and 7 days.

For example:

A user selects 2010-11-01 as the @prompt value. I then want to display data using that value and 7 days previous/or after.

Is that possible?

Thanks, great site.

Lloyd.