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How to create cascading prompts

I have looked everywhere in BOB and cannot find an example of how to create cascading prompts. Has anyone out there got links to an article on it or a link to a BO guide that explains in detail?

I also want to know if it is possible to supress prompts further down based upon the selection. E.g If First level was country and was answered as USA, then second prompt to ask for Post Code would not be shown?

Any help to either question would be great.


jonathanstokes (BOB member since 2004-09-17)

courtesy of Digpen


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

Please, look here at this Designer FAQ emtry here.

Regarding supressing Prompts based on a previous selection you would have to customize (via SDK) the prompt handling.


Andreas :de: (BOB member since 2002-06-20)

Thanks to everyone for the quick responses. And thanks to Digpen for a very good instruction note.

I suspected that the sdk solution was probably the only answer. I’m open to suggestions from anyone, though.


jonathanstokes (BOB member since 2004-09-17)

This is a new feature available in XI

I haven’t gone through it completely yet but in designer under Tolls/Listsof values there is an option for ‘Create cascading list of values’. THere is documentation in the XIR2 Universe Designer guide.

Let me know if it works/doesn’t work.

DOTJake


DOTJake :us: (BOB member since 2004-05-07)