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Tewy
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Is there a simple way to pass multi-select values to a drill down?

I have a html page with four multi select boxes on it each with between 6 and 1000 possible selections. The resulting graph has a drill down and I need to send the multiselect values to this drill down to ensure the selection criteria are the same, writing out a list of & variables as I normally would (i.e. VAR0=&VAR0, VAR1=&VAR1 etc) is not an option since I (hypothetically) could have up 1000 for one of my boxes.

The only way I can think of around this is to write the values to a text file and read them back out at my drill down, but that's going to be really clunky and slow my code down. Is there an easier way?

Thanks

Tewy


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susannah
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there's a limit in the size of the multi drill paragraph, i was told something like '2400 characters'...i'm not sure exactly, but i have hit it. And when you hit it, the multidrill just stops working; So, for that reason, i dont allow multi-select where i have multi-drills.(my users hate this and don't understand why, so..)
I have created special groups in my dropdown boxes with automatically group my most-groupable items;
I then have just one parm to pass thru, but it can have a value that gets interpreted as an
IF FIELD IS VALUE1 OR VALUE2 OR VALUE2
That was my work around.



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Tewy
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I've written a solution for this which works for my page. Basically I'm writing the WHERE statements to a text file, copying that to a .fex extension and using -INCLUDE in my drill down to call the statements.

A bit long-winded but it does the job

Thanks


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