Problem related to Dashboard prompt

Hi friends. I'm new to OBIEE field and I'm stuck in one of my report. My dashboard has 2 reports and dashboard prompt fiscal year. Fiscal year in both the reports comes from different tables; thats why prompt doesn't sort both the reports simultaneously. I can't change the report format due to nature of the database table. Can you please suggest me some alternate way to filter both the reports on (Fiscal Year dashboard prompt).

I think a presentation variable in your DB-prompt will help. Store the chosen year as for example 'year' and let both the dashboard reports use this presentation variable in their filters for "fiscal year"

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with the column interaction, am able to navigate to other dashboard with all the prompts only when the target dashboard prompts, defaults to presentation variable.
but when the user directly opens the target dashboard, i have to display the report with the default values which am not able to achieve.
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Any suggestions would be greatly helpful.
Thnx in Advance

Hi,
When you drill down, corresponding filter values get added to your report. So next time when you change the prompt values It does not give you proper data.
So before you change the prompt values, you comeback to the default report. and try changing the prompt values.
Otherwise you can do one thing, Do not enable drill in place for the report section. So when you try to drill down in the report, it takes you to the new page.
And in the main page even if you change prompt values, It will work perfectly.
Regards,
TKB

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Hi Rahul,
This is a bug in 11.1.1.3, request for patch 10381088 to resolve this issue.
Bug 10381088: DASHBOARD PROMPT VALS NOT PRESERVED WHEN NAVIGATING TO OTHER PAGES IN DASHBOARD
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Nico - I owe you a ton, that's exactly the problem. So the workaround is for me to set everything to not allow NULLs in the physical layer - kind of a pain, but management.
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may be the problem with company also ,you enabled the constrained to company as well i guess..
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Hi Raj,
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thanks kishore..
it means oracle bi doesn't provide any solution for this...
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isn't it?

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Edited by: user1074008 on Nov 1, 2010 2:25 AM

Hi,
In the detailed report you have to prompt the fields which you have added in the dashboard prompt(i.e. Click on edit filter option set the operator to "Is Propmted"), then only it will work.

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Hi,
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