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

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

By: gobinath

gobinath — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:36:57 +0000

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

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:08:49 +0000

Hi, thanks for your comment. First suggestion for your question is to reconfirm the syntax for @prompt() shown in the help. If it’s not there, then it probably will not parse.

Next, save the object and export it. Test it. If it works, you can consider leaving the code in place even if it doesn’t parse. However, there is risk involved. Officially with 3.0 the user:n parameter is not supported. It may or may not work once it gets to a report, that’s why you need to export and test.

Ultimately something else may break further down the line if you use unsupported code, so I tend to stay away from the extra prompt values that don’t parse. But that’s just my opinion.

By: Arun

Arun — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:47:41 +0000

I am using Bo Xi 3.1 SP2 FP 2.2

how to use “User:n” parameter in prompt?
i have given this parameter as 8th parameter but am getting parsing error as ‘Error parsing default values parameter(7th parameter)’

But in BO XI r2 SP2 it is parsing fine.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Hi, I think I read where you solved your issue on BOB.

By: BOSleuth

BOSleuth — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:25:26 +0000

I have XIR2 SP4 and I am obviously doing something very wrong here because I cannot get these prompts to work for me. They default the values I want and they also show up in the order I want, but they do not render results in the report when I use these parameters.

The syntax I’m using for two prompts is as follows:

@Prompt(’Please Enter School Division:’, ‘A’,,,{’10′},user:1,),
@Prompt(’Please enter School District:’, ‘A’,,,{’20′},user:0,)

When I run the report with the appropriate result objects, no data is returned. When I remove the parameters at the end (for example the {’20′},user:0,) )the results show up in the report just fine. Any suggestions would be SO appreciated!