Help on Command Line Arguments in BO 3

[BusObj]

Im kinda new to BO. and im encountering this problem.
I have to call Business objects from command line giving
>Busobj.exe -var security.txt ...
I have my parameter file security.txt as
BOUSER=user1
BOPASS=secret
my_var=France

this my_var variable has a prompt in its where clause.
Cust_Country.country IN @Prompt ('Choose country', 'A', 'Cust_Country\Country', MULTI, FREE)
When i refresh the document, it prompts me to enter the value and it filters accordingly, fine.
But when i call it from the command prompt giving my_var=France,like above, it never filters it for France and the prompt holds the value that i had previously typed in some time before and it filters the report on that some other country. What could be the reason. What should be done for BO to take this variable value for the prompt. (so that the user neednt enter the prompt value and should take it from this file my_var value) Can anyone help?

Thanks
KKay

 

[Macbride]

Hello,

You are mixing 2 things here, the application variables and the prompts.
You can pass a variable through the text file and use it to filter you report (through a complex filter for example) using the function =ApplicationValue("my_var&quot

You can also prepopulate your prompt but in you text file, it will have to be define as well. So your text file will look like:
BOUSER=user1
BOPASS=secret
my_var=France
Choose country=France
(Be careful, the variables are case sensitive)
If you set your document to be refreshed on Open, the prompt will take the value France here and your user won't be prompted anymore.

I hope it will help.
Cheers,
Macbride.

 

[bensonpa]

The 'my_var' value is the name of the prompt rather than a variable. So your prompt should be @Prompt('my_var',....). When you create a promt in BusinessObjects it creates a variable (in memory) with the same name as the prompt. By loading the text file on startup you're pre-assigning a value to this variable and eliminating the prompt.