Functionality of Constrain in Dashboard Prompt

Hi,
Created a Dashboard Prompt with 3 columns and enabled the option 'Constrain'. Now, I would like to alter the default functionality of this Constraint. How can I do this?
Thanks in Advance,
-Vency

Hi Casimo,
When I use check the 'Constrain' option in the Dashboard prompt able to restrict the values but some of the fields in the prompt are not populating.
I took 5 fields in the prompt and all are checked constrain. When I select a value in the first prompt, it is affecting correctly to the second prompt but results in no values to the other prompts. I have checked the log in Manage sessions and it is because of using second prompt previous value to populate the values in subsequent prompts.
Year || Quarter || Company || Account || Department
2007 || Q1, 2007 || C1 || Acc || Dept
When I change the year to 2008:
2008 || Q1, 2008 || -- || -- || --
According to log file, to generate Company, Account and Department prompts it using 'Q1, 2007' instead of 'Q1, 2008'. Here, it requires to press the GO button to populate the values correctly but need to implement without clicking GO.
This also causes another problem which I have posted previously Error during Navigation...
If I uncheck 'Constrain' option getting no error but need to get the constrain behaviour either this way or any other so that I can resolve the above issues.
Looks bit of complex... please let me know if your not clear... and it is a urgent deliverable for me..:(
Thanks for giving Reply,
-Vency

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