Comments on: @Prompt Functions: The Next Step – Optional Prompts

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:41:58 +0000

Hi LeAnn, I don’t think that Business Objects will be ale to enforce this in anyway. So even if you build in some SQL logic your users will have to comply or face an error of your choosing.

By: LeAnn

LeAnn — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:56:02 +0000

I have a report that includes 4 optional fields. I would like the user to populate at least 1 (any of the 4) when executing queries. Does anyone have any idea how I can enforce this?

By: Acidaa

Acidaa — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:49:33 +0000

Hi Julian ,

i want to show the user @Prompt for Date(mon-yyyy) , when selecting a date from list the below query should be executed :

——————————————–
MyDate in (
TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(to_DATE(@Variable(‘date plz’),’Mon-YYYY’),-12),’Mon-YYYY’),
TO_CHAR(to_DATE(@Variable(‘date plz’),’Mon-YYYY’),’Mon-YYYY’)
)
——————————————–

else if selecting none then , the below query executes:

——————————————–
MyDate in (
to_char(Add_Months(sysdate,-1),’Mon-YYYY’),
TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(Add_Months(sysdate,-1),-12),’Mon-YYYY’))
——————————————–

how i can achieve that ??

By: Petros

Petros — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:43:29 +0000

Thank you very much Julian, I will try that and provide my feedback, as soon as I go back to the client. I will also try the same scenario and see what happens, on another client who has BO XI on Oracle DB. I suspect that this might be a bug of SAP BO.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:12:25 +0000

Hi Petros, I would make sure that the user is using a supported web browser, not IE 9, if IE 8 the user must use compatibility view. Also make sure that zoom is set to 100%.

By: Petros

Petros — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:40:07 +0000

I am working on SAP BO XI 3.1.
I have a report which contains two separate queries (data providers), each one having its prompts.
When user is in view mode and selects to refresh all data providers, then everything works as expected (the prompt dialog box pops up with all prompts defined).
However when trying to refresh only one data provider, then the prompt dialog box pops up empty!
When switching to edit mode, you have again the ability to run the queries separately and get the prompt dialog box properly.
Any ideas why this happens?

thank you in advance!

By: Natalia

Natalia — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:53:23 +0000

Julian, thanks your answer come to me late, but i do that you say…just use the DocID.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:17:27 +0000

Hi Natalia,
I would suggest that you consider using the “CUID” and not the “ReportName” of “Object ID”. This is a best practice since it continues to work even after the report is migrated to another environment using Import Wizard. “Object ID” does not, those IDs are unique to every environment and “ReportName” is a non-unique value even within the same environment. So, once you know the target document’s CUID you could do something like this:
iDocID=Aa6GrrM79cRAmaOSMGoadKI&sIDType=CUID

This would solve your object not found issue. You can use Query Builder to find your object’s CUID with this script:
SELECT * FROM ci_InfoObjects WHERE si_id = 640375

Keep the messages coming until we get this figured out.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:17:01 +0000

so.. i’m now calling all right the openDocument script. But doesn’t work at all… so please help me!
this is the url report that i use like index:
http://dwhserver.intranet:8080/businessobjects/enterprise115/desktoplaunch/InfoView/CrystalEnterprise_Webi/view.do?objId=640375
and in the link i want to linked other report in the same document; is use this url:
../Program/openDocument.jsp?sType=wid&iDocId=640375&sReportName=tab3&sRefresh=Y&lsSModulo=”+CodificarHTML(“181-0″)
i want to pass the Modulo number and this prompt calls Modulo.

it response: “There was an error retrieving data from the server:
The object was not found.”
what i do wrong?

(sory for all the messages)

By: Natalia

Natalia — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:13:22 +0000

but it response: “There was an error retrieving data from the server:
The object was not found.”

what i do wrong?

(sory for all the messages)