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Rich
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I am trying to pass variables prompted for but not used in the parent report output (other than in the report title) to a secondary drill down report that takes the same input and is based on the same table. As these are date range variables (give me all records with date values between prompted start and end dates), including and hiding the date column in the parent report output will not yield correct results. I need to be able to pass the user-supplied start date and end date from the parent report to the drill down report, but am only presented with report columns in the drill down parameter box. The documentation does not appear to address this capability. Any help out there would be appreciated.
Thanks!


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Posts: 12 | Registered: February 21, 2007Report This Post
Alan B
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Hi Rich

I will try and help you here. I am not great with report painter, so bear with me.

When you get to the drill down options, select your drill down type and procedure/URL or whatever. In the With Parameters boxes select Add and then for the parameter name use the same name as your prompted variables, but without the &, so if you use &STARTDATE, enter STARTDATE. Then select the Constant value radio button and enter &STARTDATE.
This should pull the parameters through from one report to the next, where you then can use &STARTDATE again. Repeat with the end date.


Alan.
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Darin Lee
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I don't think the product addresses the capability- but I seem to play more in the code base than the GUI. You can manually edit the stylesheet to include the varname='&val' for the drilldown. I'll do some looking around to see if you can somehow trick the GUI into passing a passing a variable name instead of a field value.


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Darin


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Darin Lee
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Alan hit it on the nose. That's the solution


Regards,

Darin


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