HP Intelligent Management Center Standard Software Platform - Manual (Page 619)

Where {number} in the above example is the number of items in the batch.
Best practices for prompting
Unmanaged reports
Unmanaged reports are reports that you store outside of BusinessObjects
Enterprise. These reports can use lists of values that you define within the
report, or lists of values that you have stored in the BusinessObjects
Enterprise Repository. (You create report lists of values in Crystal Reports
when you use the Create New Parameter dialog box. You create repository
lists of values in the Business Views Manager.)
Lists of values defined within a report have the following properties:
• They can be based on command objects or report fields.
• They are always stored within the .rpt file.
• They cannot be shared between reports.
If your unmanaged report also uses a repository-based list of values, the
report will prompt you to log on to the repository whenever it is opened. This
process is required so that Crystal Reports can locate the list-of-values object.
To maximize performance and scalability of unmanaged reports, you should
reuse list-of-value objects within a single report wherever possible. For
information about how to do this, see
Sharing common lists of values within
a report .
Managed reports
Managed reports are reports that you store within BusinessObjects Enterprise.
Lists of values used in managed reports have the following properties:
• They are always stored in the repository.
• They can be shared between reports.
• They are based on Business Views.
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23 Parameter Fields and Prompts
Best practices for prompting