Hyperion Financial Reports:Getting member selection from prompt

Hello everybody,
I've a doubt on getting the member selection in GRID 2 from the prompt value set in GRID 1.
Can anyone help me out???
Regards,
Revathi

I'm not sure I have a good answer for you, but in my experience blank screens are usually caused by failing weblogic, apache, or a firewall setting.
You might have better success getting an answer in the Hyperion Query and Reporting forum.
Hyperion Query and Reporting
Good Luck,
Tim Young

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Doc ID 1107142.1:
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1. What should be the dimensions structure? Units in separate dimension? Or inside accounts dimension and differentiate with currency dimension?
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2. The calculation of per unit amounts should be done within the reporting or should it be precalculated value?
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