History in report prompts

We recently upgraded from 3.1 to 7.0. In the report prompt on 3.1 each field would save the history of values entered into that field. (i.e. if I typed 1000 in a plant prompt the next time I run the report it would remeber that I had typed 1000 and would suggest it as a possible value for this run.) The report prompt in 7.0 does not seem to offer this. Does anyone know how to turn this feature on for a 7.0 report prompt?
Thanks,
Chris

Hello Chris,
Have a look at this for your problem, it may give you some hints
OSS 940174 : F4 - Checking historical values in pers. worklist
OSS 1137466 : Variable personalization is lost / missing
Thanks
[Chandran|http://chandranonline.blogspot.com/]

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