We are having a date prompt in our reports, so that the user could select the date for which they want to run the report. Along with date we are showing the Date Id field.
So the LOVs in prompt look like this.
(-05) 01/08/2004
Where -05 is the Date Id indicating that 8 Jan is 5 days before today.
We need to pass Date Id to do some filtering and putting conditions on data set.
The problem is, when the user sees the report on next day, he will see
(-05) 01/08/2004 (Because BO retains the previously selected value in prompts). where as the id for 01/08/2004 should now be -06 instead of -05.
If the user does not click on values and select the new date, the wrong value of id vs date is passed to query and it fetches very less data which is incorrect.
Is there any way that the new refreshed value of LOV could be displayed in the prompt by default instead of maintaining the previously shown values.
The issue really is: How do I do default values in prompts? The answer is: You can only do this with the SDK. BO will always retain the last value entered in a prompt.
Oh OK. I see. Weâre in the E6 forum with this discussion. Didnât I see something in the E6 query panel to give a default value to a prompt list ? I canât get to our site right now to look. The extranet appears to be unavailble and I didnât bring my laptop home.
That is true. It works with WebI-created reports and prompts that are built in the query panel. Iâm pretty sure that prompts from condition objects are not available.
Also, the prompts built in the query panel can be ordered any way you want. No more numbering them.
But that allows you to set one default prompt, correct? So you could, for example, say that I want a default to a prompt âWhich fruit?â to start with âAppleâ.
But in the case of date, where the default might change each day (meaning I want a prompt to default to âyesterdayâ which changes daily) then weâre back to an SDK solution.
Do you need to present a list of values or do you know what date should be chosen? If you know, you could pick for them automatically.
Weâre in the Webi forum. If the user runs the report from Corporate Documents he/she will see the value in the prompt from when the report was saved to the repository. If you save the report purged, they will see nothing at all. Then you could refresh your LOV automatically and they could choose the appropriate date from the list. Where are they seeing the previously saved values? Are they not accessing the document from Corporate Documents?
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As Steve said, itâs an SDK solution.
? I canât get to our site right now to look. The extranet appears to be unavailble and I didnât bring my laptop home.
