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JayInBoston
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I have a simple star schema.

I have dimension values for which I have no facts. For instance, we have a default calendar dimension table with all days from 1900 to 2100. We only have transactions 2015-2018.

I want the dropdown year parameter to show 2015 through 2018, not 1900 through 2100.

My first thought was to use the key in the fact table as the "Return Field" and use the dimension value as the "Displayed Field" but that did something odd and only one value showed up in the dropdown.

Is there a standard way to handle this for parameters?

Thanks!

-Jeff

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Hi Jeff

First of all Welcome to Focal Point. It is a great forum for getting answers to your development questions..

One method is to create a procedure against the dimension table with a filter on the year between 2015 and 2018 and use XML for the output. Then reference that procedure to populate the drop down.


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Thanks for the suggestion.

I want to pull from the fact table, not a specific range.

Do you have a tutorial on this?

Thanks!

-Jeff


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Jeff

I send you an e-mail with word document example. Also in the documentation called Reporting Tools has a section called Creating and Using Parameters in HTML Composer


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