About Runtime Prompts

Some business rules prompt you to enter or select information, called a runtime prompt.

About runtime prompts:

• The type of information you're prompted for can vary. Examples:

  • One or more members or a range of members. For a range of members, you select from each dimension the designer set (for example: IDescendants("Marketing"),FY19).

  • A number

  • Text

  • An item in a list

  • A dimension or cross-dimension, which is a member combination that includes only one member from each dimension the designer has set (for example: Sales -> Actual -> Jan, which refers to the member intersection of Sales, Actual, and January).

• Your administrator can set up forms to launch business rules when you open or save the form.

• If your administrator enabled the parent member for adding dynamic children, you can create new members by entering their name in the runtime prompt.

  See About Dynamic Members in Administering FreeForm.

• If a business rule has a runtime prompt and the administrator selected Use Members on Forms, the default member on the runtime prompt window matches the current member in the page or POV axes of the open form.

• If multiple business rules having runtime prompts are launched when you save the data, enter values for each one, and then click Launch.