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Available when Crystal
reports are published
to BusinessObjects
Enterprise?

Available when Crystal
reports are stored
outside of BusinessOb-
jects Enterprise?

Feature

Yes

No

Populate list of values
from Business Views.

Yes

No

Cache lists of values at
report run time, and
share that list among
multiple executing re-
ports.

Yes

No

Schedule lists of values
to update themselves on
a regular basis.

Yes

No

Schedule portions of
lists of values to update
themselves on a regular
basis, while the remain-
ing portions retrieve
their values from the
database on demand.

Some components in the Crystal Reports and BusinessObjects Enterprise
products support the execution of reports with dynamic prompts and
cascading lists of values:

All viewers except for the Java Applet viewer.

Note:

Reports that use dynamic prompts and cascading lists of values run in
the Java Applet viewer; they will not, however, have pick lists where
dynamic lists of values should appear.

The supported viewers are as follows:

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Crystal Reports 2008 SP3 User's Guide

Parameter Fields and Prompts

23

Understanding dynamic prompts