Answers prompt to convert to a filter

Hello gurus,
I have a report on a dashboard page which on drilling navigates to another answers report.This answers report has a drop down prompt for Yes/No, Selecting 'Yes' should show all the records that contains value 'Test' in a column . And selecting 'No' in the prompt should restrict the 'Test' records from the result.
Please let me know the available options for this.
Thanks Shravan

@David, Below are the responses to your comments, can you pls suggest any ideas?
Okay, first of all, if you are talking about true "drilldown," you can't have a drilldown go to a report that includes a dashboard prompt "over it" as you write. If I understand what you are asking for, it can't be done, at least not in the way you are envisioning it.
Q: But before I can help with your situation, I have a question. You say you start with a report. From that report a user can click on a value in a column to drill down to another report. What are the users drilling on? What is the significance of the values that the user is clicking on?
Ans: The first report is a pie chart that has the # of SRs by category. The users drill on a particular category to fetch the details of SRs from a detail fact table.
Q: After the user clicks on a value, you want the user to be taken to a "yes/no" proompt which, when a selection is made, takes you to another report that is filtered based on the yes or no selection?
Ans: As said above, I have someting like auto processed records which can be identified by 'auto' in Action column. When user selects 'Yes' in the drop down, the result should show all the records including Auto processed ones.
Selecting 'No' in drop down, the user whould be able to see only the records that are not auto-processed.
Q: Does this sum up what you are trying to do? If so, like I said above, what is the significance of the first drill down. When a user makes the first selection of a value in the first report, what does the selection do? Is the value selected being used as a filter?
Ans: Now the value(yes/No) in the prompt should be able to change my Action column filter on the report(i.e, Action like '%' when Yes and Action not like 'auto' when No)
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