Filtering values in prompts

Hi Everybody
We have a requirement where a column called "Role" will have a both numberic and character values in it.
Ex: 01 , 02 , .99 , .98 , 101 , PRM , PRS , EOS , PMS etc.
Now the user doesnt want any of these numeric values to appear in prompts where user wants to select the values while running it in a dashboard.
How can i restrict numeric values appearing for the user , so that they can only be able to see these characters instead of numeric values?
Please help me on this as this is a bit critical requirement for us to deliver.
Thanks a lot for your time on this in advance.
Regds
Mano

Hi Mano,
Within the dashboard prompt, set the SQL statement to be something like the following...
SELECT *<your role column>* FROM *<your subject area>*
WHERE *<your role column>* BETWEEN 'A' and 'Z'
JB

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I tried it using presentation variable, and writing sql query, where is says " WHERE promo_id= @{variable}"
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Hi
I am working BOXIR2 environment. I created two prompts at Universe level- one of Date field and one on agency name field.
syntax for the prompts is
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Ok, I've simplified the case.
Here is the real case :
Object filter =
Based on object =
.[LEVEL01]
Object filter =
Based on object =
.[LEVEL01]
In WBI query result I take these objects :
.[LEVEL01]
.[LEVEL01]
.[4IUX93YJGXQEHGLX0T0GPNA9Y]
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1.
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create four intermediate reports.Example-Report r1 with only year column,r2 with only halfyear column,r3 with qtr column and r4 with month column.
Make column in each report(r1,r2,r3,r4) is equal to their presentation variables(y,h,q,m).
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section2-Place report that should come for year and halfyear.
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I am trying to pass a smallint datatype value (ex: 2000) from a page prompt to a filter. When I try to view the result, I am getting an error;
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Odbc driver returning an error (SQLExecDriverW).
State: HY000. Code: 10058....
Unresolved column: "variable1".(HY000)
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                  final String objectName = conditionFilterDataItem.getQueryObject();
                  final DataSourceObject dataSourceObject = reportExpression.getDataSourceObject ();
                  ConditionObject conditionObject = null;
                  conditionObject = conditioncont.createConditionObject ( dataSourceObject );
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                        (Operator.fromInt ( conditionFilterDataItem.getOperator ()-1));
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                            conditionFilterDataItem = filterList.get ( i );
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                        System.out.println( conditionFilterDataItem.getOperator ()+" conditionFilterDataItem.getOperator ()");
                           System.out.println(conditionFilterDataItem.getQueryObject()+" conditionFilterDataItem.getQueryObject()");
                        final String[] operands = conditionFilterDataItem.getFilterOperand();
                        System.out.println("operands for "+conditionFilterDataItem.getQueryObject()+" is "+operands.length);
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                                System.out.println(prompt.getDisplayName());
                                String promptName=prompt.getDisplayName();
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    * Converts String to a string array.
    * @param values -
    *            string to be converted.
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                  promptMap.put(prompt.getName(),prompt);
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i first remove all filter conditions the create prompts and then sets values to these prompts.
the values are set correctly to the report when viewed in Infoview but the values are not refreshed ; so i see a blank report.
Can anyone help with a code snippet at the earliest.

All replies so far have focused on solving multiple form issues. I have no problem with multiple forms per page but exactly like the original poster I can not get my h:commandLinks to work when embedded in a h:datatable.
I have command buttons before and after the data table working great, but for whatever reason command links just do a post back to the backing bean.
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Hi ,
If you dont want data to be displayed in this report for this two values , then exclude this two values when you restrcit your characteristic to the variable.
If you want not to display this values when user opens help for entering the values where he can see all the possible values for selection for the variable, then it wont be possible.
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@Prompt
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@Prompt('message','type',[lov],mono/multi,free/constrained/primary_key,persistent/not_persistent, [{'default value':'default key'[,'default value':'default key',...]})
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Syntax Description
'message' Text of the prompt message. The text must be enclosed between single quotes, for example, 'Choose a Region', 'Pick a time period', or 'Choose a showroom'. The text appears in the prompt box when the query is run.
'type' Data type returned by the function. It can be one of the following:
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'N' for number
D' for date
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lov List of values (optional). You can specify two types of list of values:
Hard coded list. Each value is separately enclosed in single quotes and separated by a comma. The whole list is enclosed in curly brackets. For example, {'Australia', 'France', 'Japan', 'United Kingdom', 'USA'}.
Pointer to a List of Values from an existing object. You invoke the target lov by double clicking on the object containing the lov that you want to use in the Classes and Objects panel. This gives the Class name and the Object name, separated by a backslash. It must be enclosed in single quotes. For example: 'Client\Country'.
mono User can select only one value from the list of values.
multi User can select multiple values from the list of values.
free User can enter a value, or select one from the list of values.
constrained User must select a value from the list of values.
primary key Use the primary key parameter with "free" or "constrained". The user enters a value or selects from the list of values. If the primary key parameter is present, the entered or displayed value is not used to generate the query. The associated key value from the Index Awareness column is used.
persistent When refreshing a document, the last values used in the prompt is displayed by default.
not persistent When refreshing a document, no values used is displayed in the prompt by default.
'default value':'key value' The default values parameter is used to define default values presented to the user.
You can define multiple default values.
The syntax for each default value is: u2018valueu2019:u2019keyu2019.
The colon ( is the separator between the value and the key.
When refreshing a document these values are displayed by default but if the persistent option is set, then the last values used in the prompt are used instead of the default values.
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Note: For each of the optional parameters, if you omit an argument, you must still enter the commas as separators.
Example: Using @Prompt to restrict countries
The object Country returns values for the countries of resorts. If you want to restrict the returned values to resorts for only one country, you would need a separate object for each resort country in the universe. However, using the @Prompt, you need only one object as follows:
The user is prompted to enter the name of the country, and the returned values are the resorts from that particular country, as shown below:
When a query is run in Web Intelligence, the following prompt box appears:
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@prompt('Enter value(s) for Customer with IA:',
'A','Customer\Customer with I A',
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Post Author: helpwithcr
CA Forum: General
" The syntax of the value for prompt 'p_phone_number' is incorrect. Please correct the syntax and try again."
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is
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Then I create 2 new reports that also have the same ID column and the some other columns. These two reports are my "real" reports. In the id column I specify a filter as being a filter that is based on the results of another request. As you might guess, I choose the corresponding reports mentioned earlier as the reference reports. I then place these "real" reports on a dashboard page with a prompt. The prompt is set to the ID the reports have as column and is of type "multi-select".
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Hi,
This is known bug of OBIEE, try using RCOUNT instead of RANK.
Regards
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http://obiee101.blogspot.com/

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I am designing a OBI query. I want to write a query and one of it filters comes from the dashboard prompt. Say I want to make a query to pull out the record for 3 consective years and user wants to enter the last year # and omit entering the first 2-year code#.Thanks!

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if i understand your question
you have a prompt for year.. and it's assigned with presentation variable, say: var_year
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