Dashboard prompt - OBIEE and Publisher

I'm using OBIEE 11g, when I added BI publisher report in the dashboard, it seems like the parameter are not there anymore. How can I add Bi publisher report parameters into the dashboard?

Hey,
I am not quite clear with your question, but this is how the dashboard prompts and parameters work in OBIEE 11g. You create a dashboard page, and embed the necessary dashboard prompts in it. When you create the dashboard prompts, you make sure the selected value is populated into a presentation variable by checking the set variable option to presentation variable and giving the variable name, the same parameter name you set on the column in the BI Publisher parameter.
Lets take a quick example:
- You are in BI publisher creating a data model, and you got to the point where you are ready to create parameters for the data mode.
- You give the parameter a name ( lets take ABCD123 for instance is the name of the parameter you created).
- In the OBIEE dashboard prompt, you give the same name for presentation variable.
- The variable name synch's up and filters on the value accordingly.
Thanks,
-Amith.

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You could try this:
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Thanks for the reply. You are correct. Its seems that the dashboard prompts do execute asynchronously.
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Hi Ravi,
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I had recently migrated from OBIEE 10g to OBIEE 11g.
I had found that there are lot of things which were working on OBIEE 10g are not working in OBIEE 11g.
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Hi Bala,
Thank you for your response.
I had tried that and resolved my problem but it was impacting other reports i.e
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