Mandatory parameter in Oracle BI Publisher 10g

Can we define a parameter to be mandatory so that user needs to enter some value for it in Oracle BI Publisher 10g? If yes how do we do that?
Edited by: 933296 on Aug 23, 2012 7:49 PM

No option is provided for such action.
If you really want the user to enter a value then you need to capture the NULL value from parameter and pass it to template and display a text message accordingly for this case.
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