Dynamic Publication

Hi,
We are in BO 3.1 and using dynamic publication for report distribution.
Below is my dynamic recipient:
ID || Name ||             Email      || LOB    || LOB_Subgroup
1 || John || Johnatemail.com   ||     HR ||
2 || Ryan || Ryanatemail.com ||           || Recruit
3 || Alex || Alexatemail.com    ||     HR || Recruit
We have mapped LOB and LOB_Subgroup from Source to Dynamic recipient.
When I run this publication, only Alex get the email with data, but other two users (ID 1 and ID 2) received only blank report. We thought (for example case 1) Report will filter for LOB as "HR" and ignore for Lob_Subgroup since no value for that row. If I understand correctly, can't we pass null values to the LOB filter? Do we need to fill all the values if we use multiple columns to filter the data? Do any one come across this scenario? Appreciate if any help on this.
Thanks
Jai

Hi Praneeth,
Currently we are maintaining excel tabs (Universe top of excel sheet) for each criteria, for example, One for LOB and another for LOB_Subgroup, but this results to create 2 publication one for LOB and another for LOB_Subgroup criteria.
Our goal is to pass multiple criteria so that we can achieve this in one publication.
Case 2 will work once there is no blank value for LOB, but the challenge is Case 1, where LOB_subgroup is blank. If we try to fill the values for LOB_subgroup then we end up in multiple rows (since 1:n relation for Lob to Lob Subgroup).
If I remove Lob_Subgroup mapping in publication, then we are forced to create a separate publication for Lob_Subgroup.
We are trying to achieve this one publication, where we could pass multiple criteria (like Lob, Lob Subgroup, etc).
Thanks
Jai

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