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Topic: Parameter string shows at top of prompt interface? Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:07am
I am using cascading prompts in a few reports and I've noticed that the full parameter string shows in text at the very top of the prompt window that is presented to the user. I'm totally baffled - I've looked for a setting to turn it off, but haven't found one.
Has anyone else seen this behavior and know how to switch it off, or what needs done to hide it?
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Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 12:08pm
I remember that on the parameter screen, there is a value on the left, which you can change when you set up the parameter...the display text/prompt as I recall, and there is a value on the left which is the parameter name.
I never found a way to hide/change the value on the left.
My company decided to use wizards of our own design, thus eliminating the CR parameter all together...so I haven't seen it years
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Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:23pm
You can name your parameters with spaces ie " " to give the illusion of an empty parameter name. Not very effective if you have lots of parameters but it's a pretty simple workaround if you only have a few.
You can still call them as follows {? }, {? } - use 1 space for param 1, 2 for param 2 etc.
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Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 4:25am
Thanks for the response and yes, it is rather annoying.
I tried the display text/prompt as you stated - added a little bit of text and all it did was push the string text to the right; still showing. It's definitely a part of the prompt window - when I run the report in Dashboard it shows there as well.
This is so very odd. I tried most settings in the prompt setup and simply cannot find a solution to it. Is this a bug, I wonder.
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Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 4:29am
Hi and thanks for the tip. I did try this on a report with only two prompts and it merely pushed the text further along to the right while still showing. I'd have to put an enormous amount of space in there for it to "disappear".
It just seems determined to display the prompt string at the top of the window, spaces or not. Worse, in BO Dashboard the initial user prompt interface goes full screen - no hiding it there with spaces.
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