Heirarchical LOV prompts

Hi All,
Please help me to get a proper plan to create hierarchical prompt
i.e. for example whenever user enter Year (say 2001)at runtime in prompt box States also prompt with LOV but which should belongs to only 2001 year but I'm getting other years with + symbol but user dont need this
Thanks

Hello Malika,
Let me see if I got you correct: -
Year State
2001 NY
2001 NJ
2002 Chicago
2002 Washington
Select "State" in Designer --> Go to "properties" tab,
Click on "Edit" LOV.
You will see that in the query object "state" will already be there, drag and drop "Year" to the query filter and put a prompt like: -
Year equal to "Enter the value for year"
Remove the hierarchical display for "State" Object.
Click "Ok", Save and export this universe.
Now create webi report, select "State" in Query Object and use "State" in filter section and put prompt as: -
Select In List "Enter the value(s) for State"
Now once you see the prompt window first you have to provide the answer for the inside prompt, in that way you can restrict data as per year.
Thanks,
Vivek
Edited by: Vivek Chauhan on Sep 12, 2011 1:48 PM

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Hi,
1) When we refresh a WebI report hitting a BEx query with security applied, it doesn't prompt for the credentials, but we confirmed through tracing on the SAP side that if the user hits a paramater it has access to, the data comes through and when we hit a paramater they do not have access to, we can clearly see SAP reject it and it spits out a logical error on the BO side in InfoView and in the WebI logs on the BO server.
>> Which authentication are you using to logon to InfoView ? Whats the configuration in the Universe Connection for Authentication ?
2) When we refresh a Crystal Report hitting ECC data, we are prompted for the SAP credentials and everything works as expected
>> The user is using which authentication ? and against which system does he log on ?
However:
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