[SOLVED] Multiselect issues

I'm creating a launch page via html composer for a fex that that works well with the auto-prompt. At present, just one amper variable (of about 6) was defined in a filter with OR ("Multiselect OR"), the rest are set for single select.

At the launch page, enabling this amper variable's drop down box (or list box) Multiple property brings up the warning that this variable isn't set up properly for multi select. Double-check the fex, and it is.

Giving the launch page a test run, it'll load up and the dropdown/listbox will actually allow the multiple selection, but multiple selection isn't performed and returned into the report - just one value from the box is used in the report's execution.

Has anyone come across this situation before??
We're using 7702M here for Win64.

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Mark Teegarden

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We're now using 7.7.02M H2 as well. And I just had this very same problem with a converted set of files.

This is pretty easy to fix and I have to thank my coworker Jerry for the answer:

On the Parameter tab - break the binding between the control and the parameter.
Back to Composer - select the control and change it to Multi-select
Back on the Parameters tab - rebind the control to the parameter

That fixed it for me. Apparently, the action of re-binding the parameter with the modified control is enough to fix the code in the html file to correctly handle the reconfigured control.

It's just not immediately obvious that you need to do these steps. I guess that's what helps us keep our jobs