Can I create an object prompt in BO?

[wqdeng]

Hi,

I have a class called Geography and inside it there are country, region, state, city. I need a prompt which ask user to select from 'country', 'region', 'state' and 'city'. And based on user's response, BO should generate a report like |country| # of customers| or |region|# of customer| or |state| # of customers| or |city| # of customers|. Is this doable in BO? If so, can some one tell me how to do it? I try @Select(@Prompt(..)). But BO said it is invalid.

Thanks,
Winston

 

[blom0344]

Hello wqdeng,

Some months ago , an end-user asked me for a report with the exact functionality you are describing. As far as I have been able to check, each BO-document uses 1 and only one set of prompts. So if you define a four-fold prompt, BO will expect input for all four prompts. You can not say, let's skip the fourth prompt by leaving it empty. I have solved it by creating multiple documents for each case, each with their own set of desired prompts, but this is of course a work-around!