Prompt default

Experts,
I have a scenario as below.
There are 3 pages in a dashboard with each page having its prompt. Each of the 3 prompts is having SSN(edit box) as its common column. When the user clicks on this dashboard, the SSN for the first page should default to say 'XXX'. I am able to do this. Now, when the user clicks on 3rd page, the SSN is still set to XXX. If he clears XXX, and presses Go, all the SSNs are returned. Now, if he clicks on 2nd page, all the SSNs are returned. I want that when he clicks on second page, SSN should again be set to XXX. That means whenver he clicks on any page, SSN should be set to XXX.
Can it be achieved.
thx,
parag

Okay, if you have Edit prompts and want 3 completely independent prompts, try this:
1) For the first prompt, click on the fx button and type CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN tablename.columname ELSE 'test' END.
2) Set the default to the specific value that you want and save it to a presentation variable, say pv_SSN1
3) In your report that uses this prompt, set the filter equal to pv_SSN1 instead of "Is Prompted."
Repeat for the other prompts except as follows:
For the second prompt, set the CASE statement to 'test1' and for the third prompt, set the CASE statement to 'test2'.
Name the second and third PVs, pv_SSN2 and pv_SSN2, respectively. Set the filters to your report as appropriate.
You can keep the label to each prompt the same so everything would be invisible to the end user.
This will essentially make each prompt independent of each other. Try it. Hope that solves your issue.

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