Using prompts as a filter

I have reporting where I want to report the difference between amount from one year to another year.
I want to pass Year and Year as prompts And then use them to filter my amount column
So amount where year = prompt1 and amount where year = prompt2
and calculated item amount - amount
is this possible?

Accomdate the 2 filters with the presentation variables and then pass the same presentation variables to the column where you need to calculate the change between the 2 years...
mark if helpful/correct..
thanks,
prassu

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Hi,
if i understand your question
you have a prompt for year.. and it's assigned with presentation variable, say: var_year
And you are just entering value for only one year, say 2000.
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Hi Micek,
Thanks for your quick reaction.
Yes you are right the ChosenValues will be replaced by presentation-variables in the final dashboard,
I just am testing it with constant values in the Answers module.
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