Publication and Prompt values

Hi,
I am on customer site with BOE XI 3.1 FP 1.6. We are creating publications with a WebI source report. The WebI report has a series of prompts. Eg. posting period. The publication is pushed to 2 groups of reciepients. Each group has a different profile value. The WebI report has been last saved with posting period = 5. When I schedule the publication, I change the posting period to 3.
2 instances were generated for the 2 profile values. When I open the 1st instance - it shows me data for posting period 3 - which is correct. However, the 2nd instance shows me data for posting period 3. It seems like the prompt value at the time of scheduling did not get picked up for the 2nd instance.
Has anyone came across this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Cindy.

Hi Cindy,
We came across the same problem. We have a publication for a certain group, that has to be split on the section (normal publication).
The publication has to run on different times for a different value. Originally the webi report has run for a value product=1, which is selected with a prompt. When we change the prompt value in the publication (product=2) the original value is still selected in the publication or the result set is empty.
We have however discovered that when you first open the Webi report, refresh it with the new prompt value, save the report and then change the prompt in the publication the report is correctly refreshed. This is a workaround we currently use, but it is not very convenient. We are looking for a solution for this problem.
Regards,
Jorn

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CA Forum: Desktop Intelligence Reporting
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