Adding a prompt to a custom group's definition

A custom group allows you to group attribute elements in a way that is not defined in the data warehouse. You can create "relationships" between the attribute and the custom group. A custom group is made up of an ordered collection of components called custom group elements, which contain sets of filtering or banding qualifications. Qualifications are the actual conditions that must be met for data to be included in the custom group element. Examples include "Region = Northeast" or "Revenue > $1 million". You can use prompts in custom group qualifications.

You can add almost any kind of prompt to a custom group's definition in the Custom Group Editor. The following table lists requirements to add different prompt types to a custom group definition.

Type of Prompt	Custom Group Definition Pane
All filter definition prompts	Yes
Object prompt of attributes	Added as part of an advanced qualification
Object prompt of metrics	Added as part of a set qualification, and any place that accepts metrics
Object prompt of filters	Yes
Date prompt (value prompt)	Added as part of an attribute form qualification, on an attribute form of Date data type
Numeric prompt, Long prompt, or Big Decimal prompt (value prompt)	Added as part of a set qualification, on an attribute form of a text data type
Text prompt (value prompt)	Added as part of an attribute form qualification, on an attribute form of a text data type
Level prompts	Cannot be used in custom groups

Use one of the following procedures, depending on the type of prompt that you want to add to the custom group:

You can also create a prompt when you create a custom group. This embedded prompt cannot be used in other custom groups or objects, but only in the custom group that it was created in. For instructions to create an embedded prompt within a custom group, see About prompted custom groups.

For descriptions of the various types of prompts, including instructions to create them, see: