Multiselect

You can select multiple values for a single parameter. For example, for Country Names, user may select multiple country names.

Perform the following steps to multi-select the values for a parameter.

Select the checkbox in Multi Select tab header if user may need to select / specify multiple values for this parameter.  For example, for Country Names, user may select multiple country names.

• Maximum Selectable Values: Specify the maximum number of values a parameter can take as input.

• Enclosed By: Specify the character that would be used to enclose the set of values. This will depend on the database. Default Value: “ ‘ ”. This is enabled for Char and Date type parameters.

• Separator: Specify the character that would be used to separate two values. This will depend on the database. Default Value: “ , ”

Select Default Values

A multi-select parameter may have multiple default values.  Default values will be displayed selected at runtime on IPF.  Under Select Default Values area, select any of the following options.

• Selected: To display some of the values as selected at run time, click Selected option and select those values from the list (appearing below).

• All: All values displayed as selected at run time.

• None: Selecting this option does not display any value at run time.

Let us look at an example of multi-select parameter to enable user to select sales persons from a list.

Figure 10: Multi-select Parameters

The below screen shows how the multi-select parameters would appear on the IPF.

Figure 11: Multi-select Parameters on IPF

You can directly edit and thereafter save the parameter upon clicking the Settings icon  .