Dashboard prompt value update question

All,
I am hoping to see if anyone can answer my question or whether it is a bug or an enhancement request is needed to send to oracle.
The issue is with my Dashboard prompt, plain and simple to there are two prompt. The second is reliant on the value of the first prompt.
For example, My Parent prompt is Channel, and the second is Sub-Channel.
When Channel prompt is given a value, I want the sub-channel to contain only the values that are related to the Channel prompt's new value.
However it doesn't work, I have to press the GO button first, then the sub-channel will contain the values. Is there a way to update the sub-channel value based on the update of the Channel prompt, and not by pressing go.
Any help will greatly be appreciated, if this needs to be an enhancement request to Oracle, please inform me of what I need to do. Thank. JAR80

Its obiee limitation and conceptually its logical. Because when you choose constrain, BI server internally generates sql for constrain prompt. If we mention the sql, BI server uses the sql and which did not use the constrain query.
this similar topic is discussed once here, and workaround posted. but it is some what complex, so need to do check before implementing.
Can presentation variable created in one Dashboar prompt be used in other?
- Madan

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