I tried this. And it seems to work only for free prompts. Once I have a constrained prompt, the values are always kept in memory.

Did some one tried this and got a better result.

Thanks in advance.

Rodrigue.

Is there a way of adding a Universe/Report prompt so that it updates all queries in one go?

I have a report with multiple queries for customer data. I want the user to specify the customer number once with a prompt rather than for each query.

Is this possible in BOXI 3.1?

Cheers

I wonder if this is the reason our universe-level date prompts aren’t working in Deski apart from the ones that return a ‘fixed’ date (like current FY end) as opposed to ones which request the user to either select or input a date.


--use this first:
@Prompt('Enter FY start:','D','',mono,free)

--then later you can use this to refer to the same prompt value submitted by the user:
@Variable('Enter FY start:')


Without explicitly declaring your prompt first I don’t think you can reasonably expect anything less than trouble.

I don’t think there is a datatype involved because it’s a standard prompt output in the Deski query builder. For what it’s worth, here’s the SQL output for the query prompts:

AND SERVICE_PROVISION.ACTUAL_START_DATE = @variable(‘Enter FY start:’))

and further on:

AND SERVICE_PROVISION.ACTUAL_START_DATE = @variable(‘Enter subsequent FY start:’))
)

These are the 4 date prompts which I’m using in the query and in variables in the report (e.g. age at [first] FY end). Is it the @variable bit that’s the problem?

You have to remember we are using Deski for our reporting as Webi is currently too limited in functionality (no grouping of variables for instance – I know you can do it with IF, but there’s no way I am manually typing in 750+ service descriptions to group), and also I don’t do SQL.