Prompts for individual columns

Hi Experts,
Is there any option for creating prompts for individual columns. means i have to extract data for region,customer,amount1,amount2,amount1+amount2 and % of amount1+amount2.
But for amount1 i need to extract the data for this financial year and for amount2 is latest month data.
How to achieve this using prompts.Because client wants those prompts dynamical.
Please help me.

Hi,
If anybody doesn't have a better sollution... let's trick BI...
to have in one report one mesure that summerize for an entire year, and one masure that is for only one month and we want to filter on that particular month,
we need to set on measure 1 that it is at year level (so it will always summerize for entire year).
Now our problem that year is not YEAR(some_date) so for jan 2010 to dec 2010 to give us 2010.
We want to have from apr 2009 to mar 2010 to be 2009
so we trick the year map to be
finanial_year = case when month(some_date) < 4 then year(some_date) - 1 else year(some_date) end
so now in my measure if I set at levels to financial_year it will summerize from apr to march...
Hope It helpes
Regards
Nicolae

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