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Geoff Fish
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I am working with InfoAssist to roll out to a new group of users. My problem is that i wish to require the new users to select at least one filter. In this case the filter would be academic term. I am a relative novice with InfoAssist.

I have looked at the Where interface within the business object and if I use that it spits an error message as soon as i begin to place fields in the report that the &**** is missing.

I have explored using the Filter located in the business Object instead of the where and have had some success there. It populates the filter when I launch InfoAssist but it is not selected by default. Can I force it to be included by default? I am assuming that that is what I would need to to do because when I enable it it says it is being included. When I disable it it says it is being excluded. I would like it to default to being included. this would be so that they would get better reponse and not bring back the entire data set.

thanks in advance for any aid. I would include a screen shot if I could figure out how

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<Emily Duensing>
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Geoff,

In Reporting Objects, Where statements are applied no matter what, and a user cannot change it. Filters are "user selected" and cannot be set to on by default. Filters are "unselected" when the reporting object is opened; users can then select which filters they want applied to the report or chart.
 
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Geoff Fish
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Thanks emily ,hope your are well,
Enforcing filter selection is my goal, is there a way to get around the error message? the message that one receives when adding fields in the infoassit user interface?

Will setting a -default circumvent this? And if so how would I do that and where? In other?


Thanks for your response.

Oh FYI I use multiselect ORs to populate drop down boxes

Geoff


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<Kathryn Henning>
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Hi Geoff,

What is the exact error message that you're receiving?

Thanks and regards,

Kathryn
 
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