Force a user to enter a value for a parameter.

Hi,
I have a report with a bunch of parameters and I want to force the user to enter values for two parameters amongst all of them. Like for example when the user doesn't select values for those 2 parameters he should get a dialog box saying "please enter value for xyz parameter" or something like that, which will force the user to enter a value for the parameters before he can see the report.
Please let me know if BI Publisher can do this.
Thanks,
DY

Thanks for your replies BIPUser. I have recently started working on BI Publisher without a lot of help around.
The information in the link is what I was thinking of, if there is no such feature I'll have a default value for those 2 parameters.
Thanks,
DY

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