Issue in Default selection in Dashboard prompt

Dear All,
I have a dashboard prompt with columns year and month.month column i kept as slider in that default selection i kept 45 days backward from current date,since my requirement is the end user have the option to selection the day backward instead of 45 they need to selection either 45 or 30 15 15 based on that they have to run the report.can any help in this regards.
appreaciate the immediate response !!!!
Regards
GN

Hi GN,
Create an variable prompt ( Eg: v_days ) and add custom values as 15,30,45,100 into it and keep the default as 45.
Use v_days variable in another column prompt (Eg: Period) with the format MON-YYYY.
Now when user selects no of days , period will get the corresponding change.
Thanks,
Haree

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