Ibot with prompts

Hi guys,
when am sending a dashboard page with prompts thrugh ibot iwant to select prompt values in the runtime dynamically.like if i have 3 prompts and client will give the perameters for those prompts what he want ,and while sending that using i bot it has to select that prompt values in the runtime ..is it possible ????

You don't see prompts in iBots because there are none. An iBot is not interactive so it can not have parameters. You will have to derive all your parameters in the report itself. The iBot can run as the user that is going to receive it so you can apply data level security if you with.
You need to setup the SA System Subject Area in order to import emails into Delivers. Search the forums as there are plenty good posts about it.

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