Prompt missing in Event-Studio "Run-Report"-Task

[colt]

Hi,

I have a report with 3 prompts: P1: mandatory; P2 & P3: optional. When I ran the report, the prompts work find, and I don't have to enter values for P2 & P3. Now I want to add this report to an Event-Studio Agent. I add a task "Run Report" and chose the report.

And now my problem: In prompt section, I see only prompt P3 (one of the optional prompts), but not the mandatory one. When I click on "specify values", the prompt page of the report is shown correctly. After entering a value for P1 and returning task main page, P1 and it's chosen value is still not there. I have several other reports, which have the same prompts and all of them are working fine.

Any idea, what can be the reason, that prompt from this report is missing ?

Thanks

colt

[MFGF]

Sounds like a bug to me.  What version of Cognos 8 are you on?  Have you reported it to IBM Support?

[colt]

Dear MFGF,

I have discovered the reason for this behaviour:
The mandatory prompt was not directly used in any dataitem that was shown on the report. I used it to filter a dataitem from which I got children in
next dataitem and children from children was shown on the report.
I think this was the reason, that Event-Studio somehow thought that the prompt is not used at all.

After adding and hiding the dataitem that directly uses the prompt everything was fine.

Regards
Colt