Dashboard prompts in multiple lines

Hi experts
i have more than 6 prompts on my report and i want them to show in two lines rather than on one line as it is giving horizontal scroll bar, i have tried looking into portalbanner.css but not of much use... can you help me how to do that...
thanks & regards
Edited by: user11678978 on Jul 2, 2010 3:06 PM

In your prompt definition, you have your 6 prompts, yes? To the very left of the third prompt -- as a start -- click the "Group" checkbox. This will put the prompts in two lines. Play around with which prompt to put the check mark by to get the best fit.

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