About prompted custom groups

A prompted qualification in a custom group allows you to dynamically modify the contents of a report at run time. (Recall that a custom group element is composed of at least one qualification.) By applying certain conditions on one or more of the attributes, attribute elements, metrics, or other objects that a report can include, it is possible to:

• Apply conditions or modify components in a report at run time, thus eliminating the need for preliminary definitions

• Execute a report multiple times, selecting a different answer to a given prompt each time, and have, as a result, a set of immediate answers to compare

The types of qualifications that allow prompts include:

• Prompted attribute qualifications

• Prompted metric qualifications

• Report object prompts (using shortcut-to-a-report qualifications)

• Filter object prompts (using shortcut-to-a-filter qualifications)

These links describe filter qualifications, but qualifications in custom groups are the same. The only difference lies in accessing the interfaces to create them.