Need cascading drop downs based on non hierarchial attributes

Post Author: Out of the box thinking
CA Forum: WebIntelligence Reporting
Using BO XI Web Intelligence. I am trying to create multiple dropdowns to dictate the data input for a report. The drop downs should include attribute values for products. (EG: Color, Size, Flavor, Brand etc) these attributes do not follow a structured hierarchy and does not have a parent to child relationship. I am trying to dictate the values that should be shown in all dropdowns based on the value selected in any drop down. For example, if the user selects "Red" from the "color" drop down, Brand dropdown content should only include those brands that have "Red" products. Similarly, "Flavor" dropdown should only show the flavors that has "Red" products. These dropdowns should not be in the report body. They should be in the left hand user control menu.
Is this something already available? If not, any work arounds?
I appreciate any inputs.

Hi,
First of all: if I understand you correctly, you do want your checkbox value to be available within the view object. If so, you need to make it a transient attribute of your VO and your checkbox must be databound to that attribute (you were talking about a non-databound item). Whether the item relates to anything in the database is irrelevant from a JHeadstart point of view.
Your second question is actually an ADF related question, it has nothing to do with JHeadstart. In general I would say that you either update View Object attributes immediately when the flag is changed, or you do it in the Entity itself at Commit-time. What you are suggesting seems like an area for architectural improvement.
Regards
Evert-Jan de Bruin
JHeadstart Team

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