Parameters for Answers report.

Hi,
I am creating an Answers report. We need to give a date range as paramters. Do we have to use the column filter prompt for this or is there any other way we can create parameter range for this. Not on a dashboard but just an Answers report. Please advise. Thanks in advance.

What kind of parameter range? If it's fixed, but dynamic, you can use repository variables and a filter. Say you want to filter "last week Monday through Friday" and run the report in Answers any day this week. Use this SQL on your date column:
BETWEEN TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY,-5,TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY,DAYOFWEEK(CURRENT_DATE)*-1, CURRENT_DATE)) AND TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY,-1,TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY,DAYOFWEEK(CURRENT_DATE)*-1, CURRENT_DATE))
You can modify the above to produce any date range, fixed, but dynamic, that you want.
If, however, you need the date range to be ad hoc and dynamic, you will need the column filter prompt (for Answers) or a dashboard prompt in a dashboard.

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