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Title: Cascading prompts
Post by: cogcurious on 29 Sep 2012 03:20:29 PM
If i have a cascading prompts scenario. Should the two prompts get the data from the same query or two different queries. Which is better?
Title: Re: Cascading prompts
Post by: wyconian on 01 Oct 2012 02:40:12 AM
Hi

I think it's easier to have both prompts from the same query as the relationship between the items in the cascade are already there.

I think you can have 2 queries but you would need to have a filter in the second query to filter the results based on the value of the same prompt.

It's mucg easier to have just one
Title: Re: Cascading prompts
Post by: blom0344 on 01 Oct 2012 08:20:46 AM
Cascading prompts and prompt query filters do not mix well (resolve order trouble). Not using a cascade, but relying on a reprompt button offers the widest range of possibilities..