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9.
Click OK.
10.
Return to the Field Explorer dialog box, and drag the Region parameter into your report.
Note:
If you don't want to see the parameter field you dropped in your report, place it in a section you can
suppress, such as a report header or footer.
When you look at your dynamic prompt within Crystal Reports, it does not seem to be much different
from a static prompt. In the background, however, Crystal Reports stores the information about the list
of values that you created for this prompt. When the report engine requires a parameter that has a
dynamic prompt, it will access the data source and populate the list of values automatically. This will
be displayed on the end user prompt page. If you choose to publish the report to SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence platform or Crystal Reports Server, the list of values becomes a separate entity
that you can optionally schedule in Business Views Manager.
21.6 Creating a parameter with a cascading list of values
A dynamic prompt can include a cascading list of values, which adds additional levels of selection for
your users. For example, if you are prompting for a city value, but you also need to know which country
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