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Reference: Other Component Considerations With Amper Auto Prompting
When
using Amper Auto prompting, there are scenarios when users are
prompted to supply amper variable values for parameters that the
My Report owned by the user does not reference. These scenarios
are directly related to the internal processing of My Reports based
on Reporting Objects.
Auto prompting considerations and
expected behavior must be understood when referencing amper variables
within a Reporting Object. For information on the Amper Auto prompting
facility, see the Developing Reporting Applications manual. The
specification of values for the amper variables in the Reporting
Object Other component using –DEFAULT, –DEFAULTH, or –SET commands
will assign a default value for amper variables in a report request
to avoid a FOC error for not specifying a value. A consideration
for –DEFAULTH and –SET is that Amper Auto prompting does not prompt
for amper variables that have values assigned using –DEFAULTH
and –SET.
Whether a user is prompted by the Amper Auto
prompting facility for amper variables assigned a default value
using the –DEFAULT command is dependent on the setting of the WebFOCUS
Client configuration parameter, IBIMR_prompting. When IBIMR_prompting
is set to XMLPROMPT, users are prompted for amper variable values
and defaults will be displayed in fields where the default values
have been specified. When IBIMR_prompting is set to XMLRUN, users
are not prompted for variables when all amper variables have been assigned
a default value. For more information on setting the IBIMR_prompting
parameter, see the WebFOCUS Security and Administration manual.