GoURL and Presentation Variable

Experts,
I have the following requirement.
I have a dashboard with two pages P1 & P2.
P1 has a page prompt with presentation variable set to TEST.
P2 has a request with a column which has a drilldown. On clicking the drilldown, I want to go to P1.
So far so good.
The problem is P1 has many requests on different dimension levels.
So I just cannot use GOURL function with Table.Column eq @ since that Table.Column is Prompted would not work on different requests as they do not have that column at the same level which i drilled down from.
So, I thought if I can populate the TEST variable by using the GOURL and then use individual request's Table.Column=TEST.
So, does anybody have any idea if we can set the PV through the GO URL or say javascript..or guys do u have any other idea to achieve this requirement..
thx,
parag

Hi.
As I understood you need to jump from the report on the P2 to page P1 and call all reports in the P1 with parsed value from the P2 report.
You can put a new prompt in P1 on the top, just put 1 in edit column and set the presentation variable to pv_var1.
Now, put this prompt in P1 in the separate section and hide this section (with guided navigation) or you can use existing field in the first prompt from P1 to populate value from the P2 report to presentation variable in the P1 prompt.
The syntax is like this:
'<--a href=http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=/shared/Folder/_portal/Folder/&Page=Yourpage1&Action=Navigate&col1=1&val1='||'@{pv_var2}'||'>Go to a page one P1<--/a>'
Remove --.
Where pv_var2 is pres. variable thet you set in P2, or you can use (parse) current row value from the P2 report instead pv_var2.
When you parse pv_var2 to prompt 1 in the P1 pv_var1 is populated and you can use it in the P1 reports.
Just put in every report on P1 is equal to pv_var1, for example:
Employee.Customer Number='@{pv_var1}'
Hope this helps.
Regards
Goran
http://108obiee.blogspot.com

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