'is between' used in Dashboard Prompt

I have two columns used in the Dashboard prompt:
1. Department Description: Based on Department ID (In the BMM Layer, the descriptor column is Department ID)
2. Employee Name: Based on Employee ID (In the BMM Layer, the descriptor column is Employee ID)
Example of the data stored in the DB:
Department Description: Sales
Department ID: 01
Employee ID: 1001
Employee Name: 1001 - ABC
Dashboard Prompt Scenario 1:
Simply select two columns mentioned above, the prompt works fine.
Dashboard Prompt Scenario 2:
- Select two columns in the prompt (Employee Name and Departmemt Description)
- Default the Department Description to 'Sales'
- For the column Employee Name, use the operator 'is between' and default the values '1001 - ABC' to '3001 - XYZ', then the column Department Description shows the value for Department ID (01). The expected result is that the column Department Description should show the value 'Sales'
- If the operator for Employee Name is changes to 'is equal to', the expected output is achieved.
- Its only with the operator 'is between' when the expected output is not achieved.
Has anyone encountered similar issue earlier?

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