Constraining Values in Dashboard Prompts

Hi,
I have a question about constraining values in dashboard prompts. Do all fields need to come from the same table as I am finding constraining values is not working where I am selecting some values from different tables:
For example
Start Date - Fact Table
End Date - Fact Table
Salesperson - Org Dim
Market - Org Dim
Introducer - Org Dim
Customer - Org Dim
I am trying to constrain values beginning from Salesperson and so on but this does not work.
Is this the expected behaviour? should all values be retrieved from the same table in order for this to work?
Thanks

Hi,
Below is the filter I am applying in the report:
"Agreement Fact"."Prop Creation Date" >= Evaluate('to_date(%1,%2)','@{startdate}','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
and "Agreement Fact"."Prop Creation Date2" <= Evaluate('to_date(%1,%2)','@{enddate}','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
and Organisation.Market = '@{market}'
and Organisation."Sales Person Name" = '@{salesperson}'
and Organisation."Introducer Name" = '@{introducer}'
and Organisation."Customer Name" = '@{customer}'
I have selected constrain in the report from salesperson onwards but instead when I run the dashboard report the values beginning with salesperson do not show.
I definitely know that data exists for the date parameters(startdate and enddate) and market parameter. I have run a report in answers using the same parameters as in dashboard and do see data.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Edited by: sliderrules on 14-Mar-2011 05:57

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