CR XI Cascading Prompt on Dynamic Parameter Value

Hi friends need a help related to Cascading prompt parameter in CR XI.
I need to modify an existing report wherein Stored Procedure having a parameter is used as a datasource. Now in Report when I go in edit mode for that parameter under the value section of it a query (&select col1,col2 from tbl where userid='value coming from front end app') is written which populates the value to select the particluar value to pass as a parameter. First of all what this functionality is termed as I am not aware of it please help me with it if somebody knows it. Also in the select list its mention 2 columns but when we run the report at that time the col2 data is only being displayed in dropdown and col1 which is a id field is passed in record selection formula.
Now as per our requirement we need to introduce 1 more parameter for record filtering i.e. based on the above parameter value. This can be achieve through Dynamic Cascading Prompt. But the challenge is to use Cascading Prompt funcionality its necessary that both the parent & child field should be populate from db but here the parent value is populate using a query as I stated so in that case how to achieve this.
Sorry if I am not able to explain the scenario properly.
Please friends help as soon as possible.

Looking at the Prompt text you have mentioned, it looks like you guys might have a front end SDK solution which passes the prompt values to the 'Report'. The cascading 'imitation if you will' might be happening on the front end page and not really using the report(s) cascading prompts. To help better i think you should answer following.
1. where are users viewing this report.
2. In your CR designer, do you see cascading prompt on existing prompts?
3. what version of Crystal reports are you using and where is it hosted ?

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