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Status Submitted
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 12, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing).

ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Prompt function.

I need to be able to use ParamValue on parameters that can return multiple values. In the macro language we have Prompt and PromptMany. But we only have ParamValue function. We need a ParamValueMany function.

If it is valid for the product to have a ParamValue function, then the same logic can be applied to a ParamValueMany function.

And whilst I am at it...

The prompt function is

prompt ( prompt_name , datatype , defaulttext )

The ParamValue function is

ParamValue ( parametername [ , defaulttext [, datatype ] ] )

Why are the arguments in a different order? There is no reason why the arguments are in a different order.

It also makes changing code from the Prompt to the ParamValue function a pain as you have to reorder the arguments when you change your code.

 

 

 

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