Comments on: Extended @Prompt Syntax: Default Value, Purge Values

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:59:53 +0000

Hi Anushka, this is fairly off-topic and I am not sure I can answer you without more information, but I will try.

I can tell you that if you just want a text object that always has the text “In Thousands” then you could just create a string/character object and then set the SQL to ‘In Thousands’. It will fail parse by itself, but it will be fine when combined with any other object in a query.

Let’s try to limit our discussion to the article’s topic.

By: Anushka

Anushka — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:10:40 +0000

Hi All,

I need to creat a object in the BO Universe as “Unit of Measure” and the values shown in this objects are “In Thousands” or “In Million”
Basically a drop down with two options for the user to select at the report level.

How do I create this object in the universe.

Your help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Anushka

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:17:21 +0000

I wish I knew. Sorry m@nu.

By: m@nu

m@nu — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:14:43 +0000

Thanks Julian for the response.
Where can I find a such macro to attache ?
Regards

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:09:12 +0000

Sorry m@nu, this is not possible. You can put an edit mask in the text of the prompt for visual communication of the requirement, but you cannot enforce the format without some kind of macros attached. Native BO has no such functionality.

By: m@nu

m@nu — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:25:46 +0000

I would to apply a mask in the prompt. Is it possible ?
In my case, I ask to user to enter an hour, so I would like to be sure that he will enter a number a format like hh:mm and constrained him.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:01:21 +0000

Hi Jonathan, I have not been able to think of any explanation for this. I would still go for a process of elimination or even just rebuild a new prompt as simple as possible and then build from there.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:46:59 +0000

Hi Julian,

Thanks for your help.

Actually, the prompt is generated by WebI and not at universe level. The version of BO we are using in XI R2. The report works correctly without prompts or if the filter is a constant.

Could it be because of the Java version installed? The version being used in version 6 update 11

Thanks for your help.

Jonathan

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:12:58 +0000

Welcome to BOT Jonathan, I could only suggest process of elimination. Remove the prompt and be sure that the behavior goes back to normal. The prompt you describe seems to be a universe prompt, not generated by WebI exactly. Could you share the entire condition object’s contents so that we can try out your syntax in our systems? BTW, what is your BOE server version?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:17:12 +0000

Hi All,

When WebI generates @Prompt(’1. Enter Number’,'A’,,mono,free,Persistent,,User:0) and I click on Run Query, the report just hangs.. Does anybody have a clue why this is happening, and how I can avoid this problem?

Thanks!