Creating Tabs for Dashboard Prompts

Hi Experts
I currently have two dashboard prompts on 1 page
1) By Year
2) By Finanical Year
The user should only be allowed to use one prompt (at one given point) , therefore the other would be an alternative.
Is there a way of creating tabs 2 within the page to display each of the dashboard prompts, so when one is in use the other is hidden
This is becasue both these prompts should not be used together
Please can you help on how to achieve this
Hiten

Hi,
You can first Create Sub Report by using Presentation Variable and in prompt also you have to use the same Presentation Variable. Then you can use Guided Navigation in the Prompt (By Year or By financial Year) by browsing the Path of that Sub Report.

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