Answer requirements

You can either require users to answer a prompt when they execute a report, or you can make an answer optional.

• Required: A required prompt means at least one prompt answer must be selected from the available choices, or the report cannot be executed.
• Optional: An optional prompt does not require a prompt answer to be selected. The report can be executed without any input from the user.

If you determine that a prompt must be answered, consider also providing a default answer. Default answers allow users to execute prompted reports quickly because they can simply accept the defaults. Default answers are especially useful if you have a large number of users of a given report who will likely choose the same answer for the prompt. See Answer requirements.

To specify whether an answer is required or optional, select the Prompt answer is required check box on the New Prompt page. See the appropriate procedure below for the type of prompt you want to create, for steps to select this setting when creating a prompt.