Regarding Dynamic Dashboard prompts

Hi Gurus,
I have a requirement like this.
In an underlying dimensional hierarchy say for example Time Dimension ...there are 3 calendars hierarchy..
1. gregorian
2. fiscal
3. business.
Each one will be having different number of levels also.
gregorian has 6..starts from Year->Halfyear->Quarter->Month->Week->Day
fiscal has only 4..starts from Year->Quarter->Month->Day
business has only 5..starts from Year->Quarter-> Month->Week->Day
Now the requirement is like this.... the customer wants to have the first prompt which should have these 3 calendars as values... and if they select Gregorian..then the values should go cascaded( cosntrain) to the next level of prompt..
if its gregorian next prompt values should be Half year...based on that, he then selects quarter, then month, week and day..
So here we need to give 6 prompts.
but if the user happens select fiscal ...then after selecting year the next prompt will be quarter...then month and day...so after the 4th level of prompt the last 2 prompts should be blank.
is there any way by which we can hide these last 2 prompts dynamically??
Note: All this is happening the requirement phase and we have not yet got the data to test this.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards,
D

Hi,
don't know a posibility to hide a column in a prompt, but here is a workaround...
create 4 prompts:
first prompt: type of calendar:
column:
case when 1 = 2 then Time.dummy else '' endwith show SQL results
select case when 1=2 then "Time".Dummy else 'gregorian' end from catalog
union all
select case when 1=2 then "Time".Dummy else 'business' end from catalog
union all
select case when 1=2 then "Time".Dummy else 'fiscal' end from catalogthis prompt will set a variable var_calendar
create another 3 prompts each with all columns that needed for specific type of calendar.
gregorian has 6..starts from Year->Halfyear->Quarter->Month->Week->Day
fiscal has only 4..starts from Year->Quarter->Month->Day
business has only 5..starts from Year->Quarter-> Month->Week->Day
In dashbord put each calandar prompt in different sections and use guided navigation to show only the calendar prompt that you need as selected by first prompt...
you will find here an example on how to use guided navigation
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/oracle-bi-101332-selecting-reports-from-dashboard-prompts-and-guided-navigation-sections/
you will use it to hide prompts..
Regards
Nicolae

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