Adding value to filter column as parameter while navigating to 2nd report

Question

Hi
I have a report and I want to navigate to another report in Answers.
There is a filter column for the 2nd report whose
value I can't choose from the calling report, because it is a hidden indicator.
Is there any way I can add this hidden indicator with a hard-coded value to the
end of the navigation call (for the 2nd report)?
eg. call_report XYZ indicator='Y'.
Many thanks for any ideas.
- Jim

Answer 1

Hi,
I have used below solution to pass various indicators (columns were not present in the parent report) to same drill report. Hope it helps you.
The idea here is to override the function PTMNav which gets executed when we click on a column in pivot, which drills to another report passing the remaining column's values and filters.Follow the below steps to achieve this.
* Open the request and add a Static View to the report (compound view).
* In this view, check the option 'Contains HTML Markup' and add the below code. (The function PTMNav is exactly the same as the orginial one with just one additional line added to it)
<script language="javascript">
var colName = '"TableName"."ColumnName"'; // Add your ColumnDefinition within single quotes
var colValue = 'valueToBePassed';
function PTMNav(scttbl, row, r, tNavSetup, nType, evt, bInPreview)
   var tInNavInfo = new NavigateInfo();
   // add all the row values
   var vRValues = PTRGetValues(scttbl,row,scttbl.vRows);
   for(var n = 0 ; n < scttbl.yLayers.length ; ++n)
      // might be dealing with totals, look for null layers
      if (null == scttbl.yLayers[n])
         continue;
        // if a measure, do not add the value
        if (null != scttbl.vColumnAggs &&
            null != scttbl.vColumnAggs[scttbl.yLayers[n]] &&
            scttbl.vColumnAggs[scttbl.yLayers[n]])
           continue;
      tInNavInfo.AddValue('eq', scttbl.vFormulas[scttbl.yLayers[n]], vRValues[n]);
   // add all the column values
   var vCValues = PTCGetValues(scttbl,r,scttbl.vColumns);
   for(var n = 0 ; n < scttbl.xLayers.length ; ++n)
      // might be dealing with totals, look for null layers
      if (null == scttbl.xLayers[n])
         continue;
        // if a measure, do not add the value
        if (null != scttbl.vColumnAggs &&
            null != scttbl.vColumnAggs[scttbl.xLayers[n]] &&
            scttbl.vColumnAggs[scttbl.xLayers[n]])
           continue;
      tInNavInfo.AddValue('eq', scttbl.vFormulas[scttbl.xLayers[n]], vCValues[n]);
   /** START custom code **/
  tInNavInfo.AddValue('eq',colName,colValue);     
   /** END custom code **/
   // let PTNavigate add just the page + section values and navigate
   PTNavigate(scttbl, tNavSetup, (new Array()), (new Array()), -1, evt, tInNavInfo, bInPreview);
   return false;
</script>* The code above contains the overriden PTMNav function. Here on line 2 and 3 specify the column Name in colName variable and column Value in colValue variable which needs to be passed to the navigated report.Ensure you have this column as 'is prompted' in the drill report.
Now, along with other filters and column's value, this column's value will also be passed to the drill report.
Please let me know if this solution works for you.
Thanks