OBIEE multi-select dashboard prompt selection limit.

I am runing into a limitation on the number of selections I can make with a multi-select dashboard prompt. I can not find any documentation on this limitation. Does anyone know what the limitation on the number of selections is?
Thanks

Are you looking for this:
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/07/obiee-number-of-default-values-in.html
regards
John
http://obiee101.blogspot.com

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user1146711 wrote:
Hello Experts
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