Runtime Action in Parameter Form

hello sir/madam
I am working in Report 6i .. I am creating a report in which,in the parameter form I am using a textfield for getting input from user..based on the input received from the user I want to display another textfield in the same parameter form at runtime ...
Tat is........
I created a parameter form with following text field
Do u want to have selective department information ('S'/'N') : ....................
so if 'S' is given as input then following should appear:
Enter Department Code : ................................
how to do this....plz help ......

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Order by in Parameter form for a formula col

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I have made a report for fast moving products and have ordered by on a formula column. Is there any way to select the order by (ascending or descending) in the parameter form at runtime for the same formula column. Instead of making two different reports one for ascending and one for descending, is there any way the user can select at runtime in the parameter form?
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I think by declaring one additional variable in which
u will ask from user in which order he requires the
outpu ascending/descending. and in second variable u
assign the order,
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Thanx for your reply but unfortunately it dint work. It dint show me any error as such but the ordering did not take place.
The issue is that I need to do the ordering on the Formula Column. Simply adding an order by statement like ' order by :cf_4 ' shows an error. Though routing it through the variable dint show any error it neither did serve the purpose.
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hi!
I made a report which contains quite a lot of data; so I
also created a user parameter for the runtime parameter form, so
the user can select one value so that the amount of data is
minimized; the user parameter is based on a select statement;
now my question: the way it is now the user can only make one
selection, how can he see all records and is not forced to select
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Michaela (guest) wrote:
: hi!
: I made a report which contains quite a lot of data; so I
: also created a user parameter for the runtime parameter form,
so
: the user can select one value so that the amount of data is
: minimized; the user parameter is based on a select statement;
: now my question: the way it is now the user can only make one
: selection, how can he see all records and is not forced to
select
: a single value?
: thx, michaela
Hi Michaela,
I Understood that you have created user parameter based on
select statement which will display list of values in List item
in the Runtime Parameter form. User can select any one value
from the list & display the records for selected value in the
parameter form. But your question looks like user should have
facility to select all the value in the list from the runtime
parameter form.
Example : Display list of deptno in the Runtime parameter form.
If user selects any one deptno, display employee
details for the selected deptno. Also user should
have option of selecting records for all the dept.
1. Create user parameter P_DEPTNO based on following select
statement.
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Union
Select 'ALL' from Dual
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from Emp
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select all the records for all the deptno as well as user
can specify particular deptno.
I hope this may help you to solve your problem. Pls let me
know whether this helps you or not.
Mani/-
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Reports-Runtime Parameter Form; another question

hi!
I would like to implement 2 user parameters in the runtime
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but I don't know how the select statement for the second user
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but this doesn't work
Any other ideas?
thx in advance
null

Michaela (guest) wrote:
: hi!
: I would like to implement 2 user parameters in the runtime
: parameter form which depend on each other: with the first one
you
: can select a special ressort and depending on the selection you
: made here you can select some keyword groups with the second
one;
: but I don't know how the select statement for the second user
: parameter should look like, because it is not allowed to use
: 'Bindevariablen' (sorry, don't know what they are called in
: english; this are the ones with the : in front of them):
: here is what I tried to do:
: parameter: P_1
: select rs_id, rs_name from tb_ressort union select 99999, 'alle
: Ressorts' from dual order by 1
: parameter: P_2
: select kwg_id, kwg_group from tb_keyword_group union select
: 99999, 'ALL' from dual
: and here I wanted to add a where clause: where rs_id = :P_1
: but this doesn't work
: Any other ideas?
: thx in advance
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I think this will generally not work in reports parameter form;
the parameter values are available first when the report is
started, and the first point to reference them is in the
after-parameter-form trigger. I think you get the message
from the report builder 'REP-0781: Bind variables not allowed in
the Select statement'.
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with two LOV's attached to two items wich CAN reference each
other. Then use add_parameter and run_product to start your
report. This seems to be more complicated then using only
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dear members
i want to create rumtime parameter form.
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- Thanks

Hi Frank,
There's a note published on Metalink, note 139546.1, showing a workaround to thi problem. but
- it is rather lengthy and confusing, may not be practical .
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1. <form method=post action=""> where action contains an empty string, it needs to have a valid entry, e.g.
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