I thought this would be a commenly asked question but I couldnt find anything on the archieves.
Basically I have a report with two prompts one prompt is Country and one is called Dept Code. In some instances the user only wants to Enter country and report on all Dept codes within this country, in this case they just want to enter Country and leave Dept blank, however the report does not work as the Dept prompt is blank.
Is there anyway they can run the report and leave Dept blank ?
There isn’t straight forward way of doing it.
The way I did it in the past is to create a default lov called ‘NONE’ (which means (NONE=NONE), so always true and the user will select country and leave dept=NONE or vise versa.
Sorry, I just wanted to point out the obvious and make sure it was not being overlooked. Can you not change your prompt to “matches pattern” and allow the user to use “%” wildcards for pulling all depts. Not an ideal solution since you want to leave blank but should produce the desired results.
I tried that, but it only worked to a point, by changing it to pattern
match and then entering % it worked. However sometimes the users
want to select Dept and enter a value however by using Pattern match it only allows me to select 1 Dept code in the prompt it wont let me select
more than that.
I searched for “option* prompt” or something like that. I searched all of Bob (in other words, I didn’t limit my search to a particular area). I got about 15 result topics back, some of which were obviously not what I wanted just from the subject line. Anyway, I was just curious as to how you had searched…
Yes. Here is the code I used on one of my prompts to allow the user to select mulitple values with matches pattern.
@Select(Unbilled Claims\Payor Type - UBC report) IN @Prompt(‘6. Payor Type (ex. Medicare) or % for all:’,‘a’,‘Unbilled Claims\Payor Type - UBC report’,multi,free) OR ‘%’ IN @Prompt(‘6. Payor Type (ex. Medicare) or % for all:’,‘a’,‘Unbilled Claims\Payor Type - UBC report’,multi,free)
Maybe this will get you started, I got the basis for this code off another thread on BOB. I imagine if you do a search on MULTI and FREE you can locate some more information. I looks like a pain but it works very well.
Did you create the prompt at the Universe level or report ?
General question about prompts, I have experience of adding them to tables as join so if an object is selected that references this table the Prompt appears. How did you implement your Prompt did you create a seperate Object ? specficially for the purpose
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