Picklist for TI Parameter dialog possible

[SBrenner]

Hello everybody,

is it possible to use a picklist (or a kind of) for TI parameters?
I have to specify a parameter for dimension and the possible values are cryptic strings. My idea ist to provide a selection box (or something similar) with valid values as parameters for the dimension.

Any idea how to realize it.

Thanks in advance

Steve Brenner

[Martin Ryan]

Not in pure TI. The alternative is to use Action Buttons in Excel and have drop down boxes in cells in Excel.

If you have to use pure TI the closest you can come is checking the parameters in the prolog before proceeding. I tend to write something like this

prolog:

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errMsg='';
if(pParam@<>'Option1' & pParam@<>'Option 2');
  errMsg='pParam (' | pParam | ') is invalid.  Aborting.  Valid options are Option1 and Option2.';
  ProcessBreak;
endif;

Epilog:

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if(errMsg@<>'');
 ItemReject(errMsg);
endif;

As Alan will tell you, this is a bastardisation of ItemReject (strictly speaking it shouldn't really be used in the epilog), but I find it useful. The other problem with this approach is that only admin users are able to open the error log to see what the problem was.

HTH,
Martin