Variable prompt in WAD

Hi all,
We have few WAD reports.Today suddenly all of the reports are prompting for variable screen.These reports earlier never prompted for ant variable screen while refreshing
Can u pls tell me how can this be fixed.
Pls note We have few mandatory variables/ready for input are used in the query.
Regards,
Sushant

Hi,
i already checked the behaviour property set in WAD.
"Display variable screen" option is put "OFF".So ideally prompt should not appear.But it still appears
any other ideas??
Regards,
Sushant

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