Passing Input Controls as Parameters in Webi

Hi All,
Hope you all doing great! I have a requirement where we need to pass input control values from Report A to Report B.
As shown in the above image, the user selects 10 states (for example) at query run time and we have an input control for the same object ([State]) in the report where the user selects/filters four states out of 10 to view the Product and Sales information specifically for those states. Now from here we have a document linking setup on Product column to Report B where we see specific product information. (for example when user clicks on Shirts, Report B opens up with detailed info about shirts business in those four states that are selected via input control).
So, my question is how do we pass these four states (selected via input control) from Report A to B. Please let me know how to implement this functionality. We are running on BO 4.1 with Teradata as backend.
Thank you all for your responses. Cheers!!

Hi Rakesh,
It is working. Thanks for that. but it is also throwing #MULTIVALUE error for few fields. I don't know why but do you remember any instances that trigger this error? Any reason why I get this error?
Well, what I see is one state has two products with same price. That is why it is causing multi value error. Any workaround for this?

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