Comments on: Designer XI 3 New Feature: Extended Prompt Syntax

By: AB

AB — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:35:51 +0000

It seems we cannot use UPPER before @prompt.Here is the code which does not work for me::

UPPER(TABLE_NAME.PRDCT_NAME) IN UPPER(@Prompt(’Select Product’ ,’A', ‘Product\Product Name’,MULTI,)
here is the code which works::
UPPER(TABLE_NAME.PRDCT_NAME) IN UPPER(@Prompt(’Select Product’ ,’A', ‘Product\Product Name’,MONO,)

any suggestions/ workarounds ??

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:48:51 +0000

Hi, Steve, I don’t think that would work. To be honest, I have never tried it, but I don’t think it’s that flexible. Welcome, and thanks for your question.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:04:58 +0000

Is it possible to dynamically generate a value for the ‘message’ parameter in the @prompt command?

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:29:43 +0000

It’s only officially documented (and therefore I assume supported) as of XI 3.

By: Martingo

Martingo — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:07:35 +0000

I tried use this primary_key parameter feature on XIR2 but didn’t worked well. The prompt returned all values of the object, not only that one i had selected.

By: Nishant

Nishant — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:05:27 +0000

Thanks, Dave. Unfortunately, these are not options in this case. The database user names and passwords are not the same as the BOBJ ones. SSO is not enabled to the database and not an option they can pursue at this point. Using a single “super id” for the connection is not an option. So the user needs to be prompted at run time, when the report is opened in infoview and refreshed. Let me know if you have any other thoughts on this. Again, thanks for your response!

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:42:14 +0000

You can override the connection based on user / group membership. In the substitute connection you can use @variable(’BOUSER’) and @variable(’BOPASS’) to pass the existing BusinessObjects account information. Does that get you where you need to go?

By: Nishant

Nishant — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:36:29 +0000

Hi Dave:
Is it possible to prompt the user for the database user name and password when they refresh a report in InfoView, without using the SDK? What have two connections — one that has a hard coded user name and password and it is used for scheduled refreshes by a super ID. But, using Universe Restrictions, we want to be able to switch to a different connection for regular users when they use that Universe to refresh/create reports and that connection needs to prompt the users for the database name and password. Thanks.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:28:35 +0000

By befault The sysdate is come into promt text box,whenever user refresh the report. Is it possible?

No, not today. But I previously posted a workaround. Optional prompts are not available in the universe yet.

By: gobinath

gobinath — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:37:58 +0000

Clear me about optional prompt