Personalizing web intelligence with prompts ..

Hello,
i am trying to schedule a publication of a Web Intelligence Document. This document uses a prompt. I personalized data for 2 users example 'John' and 'Larry' with values 'California' and 'Texas'. The document is saved with parameter value 'California' (not removable). The Option "Refresh at run Time" is set ..
Issue: When runing publication. John becomes personalyzed data for california. LArry bvecomes empty report. Any suggestions ..? Thanx .

Getting data from another query is not an option with the BICS based webi.Also unfortunately there is no good way to have a custom cascading prompt if the hierarchies are not available in Bex. Here is a link to the idea place to have this functionality in a future release https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=7732DE74-E9A6-4736-AEE0-6181E5BB5F5E&idea_id=EE6432C0-BC6C-47E6-BB04-C095B3C398B8 However if performance is not an issue and you need this functionality you might also want to look at MDX based OLAP universe using the old UDT tool which is still available with BI 4.0 . That will allow the custom cascading prompt to be created on the universe.

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Hello experts,
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I followed Aashutosh's link above, and i read something very interesting on page 3:
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