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empty/no user selection for condition objects

building semantic layer
#1

I am not sure if this goes here on in the reports section…

I have a report that prompts the user for 3 conditions.

  1. condition A is required- user has to choose a value.
  2. condition B = not required - user may leave it empty
  3. Date condition = not required- user may leave it empty

The spec is that the user needs to select A, whereas he can choose to selet Band Date or leave them unselected. i.e B and Date are conditions on the report, but the user may not give an input for those. In that case the report will display all possible values of B and Date for the selected A object.

How can this be achieved in WebI XI or Crystal XI?

Don840 (BOB member since 2005-03-14)

#2

In classic businessobjects (webi/deski) each and every prompt must have a response. You cannot ignore prompts and leave them empty.

I don’t know if that is the case with Crystal.

dessa :madagascar: (BOB member since 2004-01-29)

#3

Thanks for the answer.

In that case how do I create the condition object to accept ‘ALL’ as a default input.
So for eg., for condition B, either the user can choose a specific value or types ‘ALL’ for all the values. I also need to have the list of value displayed for the condition objects .
Similar for Date condition.

Any ideas?

Don840 (BOB member since 2005-03-14)

#4

For how to create ALL in prompt have a look at 2 first entries in Designer FAQ.

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)