Cascading Prompts

Hi all ,
I built a Cascading Prompt report in Answers and intergrated in one of my dashboards.
Now in Dashboard I want it to show as a report but the compelte report dispayed as simple Prompt (with 1st input ) .When I click on 1st input the prompting process is getting opened in different window.When I enter 2nd ,3rd and 4th inputs then the real report will appear in the same new window. Once I report and click on return it then takes me to Dashboard.
Now How do I show this complete process in dashboard only and I do not want these Cascading reports opens in a different window.
Is there any better way to create/handle cascading prompt reports ..any new ideas like can we create a dashboard prompt and pass it to reports .Any suggesstion are most welcome or come well !!
Thanks
SS

hi
speaking for the bibeans: the querybuilder today offers this type of selections, by using the various hierarchy selction tools combined with the add/keep/remove/replace operator you can do this.
of course you can built your own "navigation" tree as well
for discoverer: there are changes in the upcoming 10g release regarding the grouping and combination of paramaters, but to be on the safe side, address this question in the discoverer forum as well
regards,
thomas

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