Bi Publisher Enterprise 11.11 Parameters.

Question

I am building a report and i have couple of parameters. the user will enter the values for the parameter in a text field. now, i want to make that text field optional. how can i do that? i do not want to set a default value, i want it load blank but i want it to be optional.
thanks for your help.

Answer 1

AlexAnd wrote:
2 Srini VEERAVALLI      
where col1=:p1 and (col2 is not null or col2=:p2)may be
where col1=:p1 or col2=:p2will be more simple?
or may be i understood incorrectly your idea
2 YeisonSoto      
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I am building a report and i have couple of parameters. the user will enter the values for the parameter in a text field. now, i want to make that text field optional. how can i do that? i do not want to set a default value, i want it load blank but i want it to be optional.
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as idea
if your reports have one parameter per report but for different column
then you can use this one parameters and create other for indicate report
say you have rep1 with par1 and rep2 with par2
so you create one parameter(p1) for par1/par2 and second parameter(p2) for rep1/rep2
and in data model use
where ((:p2 = 'rep1' and column1 = :p1 ) or (:p2='rep2' and column2 = :p1))so before execute you must know for which report use parameters condition
for ebs second parameter no need because you can check this condition by request_id
what I did was this:
WHERE REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM("ABTAX"), '-', ''), '.', '') like *:identification*
OR (REGEXP_LIKE(TRIM(ABALPH),TRIM(UPPER(*:Name*)))
AND REGEXP_LIKE(TRIM(ABALPH),TRIM(UPPER(*:LastName*)))
OR( REGEXP_LIKE(TRIM(ABALPH),TRIM(LOWER(*:Name*)))
AND REGEXP_LIKE(TRIM(ABALPH),TRIM(LOWER(*:LastName*)))
Now I can filter the results of the records for identification or the name of a person
but when I filter by the name I have both data (Name and LastName)
that have not been solved, I wonder if I can display a message that says "There should be no empty fields"