All in page items

Hi,
I created a report which contain a few page item. All the drop downs (page items) have more than one value. In one page item I can select <All> for all the values but in second page item drop down list, <All> is not present :( .
Can somebody tell me how can I add <All> in the values present in the page item drop down if i want to select all the values???
Regards,
Usman

Usman,
I don't know if your situation is exactly like mine. I had a case where as a result of my worksheet conditions, I had a page item with only one value returned for it. When you only get one value returned, Discoverer does not make that "<All>" value available. I reported this to support and they dupllicated the issue and are working with development on a possible fix. In the meantime, there is a work around, if you can manage it. If you can somehow get more than one value to show up for the page item, you can then pick that <All> value. For example, I removed my conditions so that I could get multiple values for the page item. Once you pick that <All> value for the page item and save it, it will then stay available, even after reapplying your conditions to take you back to one value. Yep - surprised me to - if you can get it in there and pick it, it will stick around. So the trick is to be able to get at least one time multiple values for the page item, pick the <All>, save that selection, and you are good to go.
So you really have the issue only if there is only 1 possible page item value today. That would be a pretty rare situation to have happen, but I guess it could.
Hope this makes some sense.
John Dickey

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