Letting users choose their own report filter

You can let each user choose the report filter that suits his analysis needs. You can also let users design their own filters, within the constraints that you define. To provide this functionality to users, you add prompts to a report.

An Object prompt that is made up of filters lets each analyst choose from among your chosen set of filters, to apply the most useful filter for that analyst's reporting needs. A filter definition prompt allows analysts to design their own filters, within your chosen constraints, before the report is executed against your data source.

This provides an opportunity for individual analysts to define the data that is returned from your data source. For details on Object prompts and filter definition prompts, see Asking for user input: Prompts.