The Prompt Hierarchy object is a
control that allows the user to select one or more values from a flat
or hierarchical list of options to be displayed.
About this task
Prompt Hierarchy control objects allow
a user to control what hierarchy levels and individual elements of
a prompt hierarchy are expressed in query results displays. For example,
you create a table that is populated by a query that has an associated
prompt hierarchy. You then create a Prompt Hierarchy control and link
it to the query's prompt hierarchy. Now, when you run the dashboard,
you can open a window and select which parts of the query data that
you want to display in the table.To insert a Prompt Hierarchy control
object:
Procedure
- In the editor window, select the visual dashboard scene
to which you want to add the object. If the scene is not opened in
the editor, then double-click the page or scene in the Project
Explorer.
- From the Palette view, select the Prompt
Hierarchy object and click in the editor window or double-click
the Prompt Hierarchy object. The Prompt
Hierarchy object is drawn based on default properties.
Note: You can also select the Prompt Hierarchy object
from the Palette view, click in the editor
window, drag the cursor to draw the size that you want, and release
the mouse button. The Prompt Hierarchy object
is drawn.
- Select the query that you want to connect to the control
object from the Query drop-down list.
Note: All
of the queries that have been previously added to the Queries folder
in the Project Explorer are available in the Query drop-down
list.
- Select the prompt hierarchy that you want the object to
control from the Prompt hierarchy drop-down
list.
Note: All of the prompt hierarchies that have been
previously linked to the queries in your Queries folder
in the Project Explorer are available in the Prompt
hierarchy drop-down list. If no prompt hierarchies have
been associated with your dashboard queries, this drop-down list is
empty.
- Click Finish.
The Prompt
Hierarchy Wizard closes and the new Prompt Hierarchy control
object is displayed on the canvas.