advantages of cascade prompt ???

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / subhash

when ever u want other prompt display values based on the
selected one then we will go to the cascading prompt.

by using this actually we no need to create a filter for
this second query manually for the selected one in the
previous prompt.

it is the best feature provided by cognos.

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / crn.siva

Create Prompts on Product line and Product type.

while creating product type we give the cascading souce as
a product line for product type

we have options are there in the properties pane i.e
AUTOSUBMIT set as YES & MULTISELECT set as NO.

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / sambamalla

EX: product range
product category
product


there is a three levels
if u select product range after Automatically next prompt
appear that u have to select product category next
product like one by one u select.

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / gopal

It uses previous prompt value to filter the values in the current prompt.

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / nasa

Cascading means a Prompt getting the filter values from another prompt..


advantages:

-Time will be save...
-Possible to send filtered values to another prompt
-we can give source to another prompt
-AutoSubmit property for Single Select
-Reprompt button for multi select
-No need to select all value possible to select only particular values at runtime

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / venkat m

casecade promt take values from another promt
it is nothing but condition.
using this we can filter the data

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advantages of cascade prompt ???..

Answer / balan

can anyone give example for it ?

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