Operation Manual

Parameter Fields and Prompts
Working with lists of values
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14. Click OK.
15. Return to the Field Explorer dialog box, and drag the Supplier City
parameter into your report.
Note: If you don’t want to see the parameter field you dropped in your
report, place it in a section you can suppress, such as a report header or
footer.
Working with lists of values
Dynamic prompts use lists of values. You can create a list of values in either
Crystal Reports or in the Business View Manager. Crystal Reports refreshes
the data in a list of values when you open a report that contains a dynamic
prompt; however, you can also refresh the data in a list of values by
scheduling it in the Business View Manager. For more information, see the
Business Views Administrator's Guide.
You can add lists of values to BusinessObjects Enterprise in several ways:
• You can create a list of values when you design a report, and then you
can save the report to an Enterprise folder. For more information, see
“Saving a report to an Enterprise folder” on page 396.
• You can create a list of values in the Business View Manager. For more
information, see the Business Views Administrator's Guide.
• You can create a list of values when you design a report, and then you
can add it to BusinessObjects Enterprise through the Central
Management Console (CMC) or the Publishing Wizard. For more
information, see the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide.
• You can migrate a list of values from one environment to another by using
the Import Wizard. For more information, see the BusinessObjects
Enterprise Administrator's Guide.
Sharing common lists of values within a report
You can use a single list-of-values object for many unrelated prompts within a
single report. For example, in a report that shows shipments from suppliers to
customers, shipments can go from a supplier in one city to a customer in
another city. You would want your report to prompt for both supplier city and
customer city; both have the same set of values. Because there are many
hundreds of cities in the database, you can break up this long list of values
into countries, regions, and cities. In that way, your users can navigate
through hundreds of values by selecting from three shorter lists.