Dashboard Prompt Execution Order

Hi everyone,
I wanted to create a few test cases to see which order the Dashboard prompts were executing. What I did was I created two identical dashboard prompts, DBP1 and DBP2, on column "Account Number". I set DBP1 to Default to Specific value of 1. I set DBP2 to Default to Specific value of 2. My assumption is that the last prompt that executes is the value that will be shown in a dashboard.
I put the two prompts into a Dashboard and ran a few tests and here is what I found out:
1. The order in which the prompts appear are the dashboard is irrelevant to the execution order.
2. The value to which the prompts are set to is irrelevant to the execution order
3. The name of the dashboard prompts is irrelevant to the execution order
4. The alias of the dashboard prmopt is irrelevant to the execution order
In my trials, the second dashboard prompt's value was always the one being shown. So I created a third dashboard prompt DBP3 set to value 3. Then all the prompts had 3 as their value. My conclusion is that DB prompts are executed in the order in which they are created. Some where in their metadata, there must be a sequence number or internal ID that grows each time a DB prompt is created. Then OBIEE uses this identifier to determine execution order.
Can anyone confirm or deny that?
Thanks!
-Joe
Edited by: Joe Bertram on Dec 5, 2009 10:44 AM

Hi Sunil,
Thanks for the reply. You are correct. Its seems that the dashboard prompts do execute asynchronously.
It turns out the reason why I was seeing newer dashboard prompts taking precendent over older dashboard prompts has to do with the cache. Apparently the last dashboard prompt in the cache, is the value all the prompts will have.
thanks!
-Joe

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