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I have a report with a typical date column. I want the user to select a start date from @prompt. Then I want the end date to be 3 months less than the user selected start date.

Example:

SELECT Date,Y,Z
FROM TABLE
WHERE Table.Date  >=  @prompt('Enter value(s) for Acct Open Dt','D',Object',Mono,Free,Persistent,,User:0)
AND
Table.Date <= USER ENTERED DATE - 3 months

Is this possible? I have done this very easily in other reporting tools. It seems odd that BOBJ would not have this functionality.

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check this out area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41621/… – Salmonerd Mar 13 at 16:07

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Unless I'm missing something, this is what you're looking for

SELECT Date,Y,Z
FROM TABLE
WHERE Table.Date  >=  @prompt('Enter value(s) for Acct Open     Dt','D',Object',Mono,Free,Persistent,,User:0)
AND Table.Date BETWEEN userentereddate AND dateadd(m,-3,userentereddate)
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There is no variable named user entered date. I just put that there as an example of what I needed there – tarheels058 Feb 26 at 15:03
Right, all you have to do is change that to your variable name. – Matt Busche Feb 26 at 15:04
BOBJ doesn't work like that. How would the user repsonse from the prompt be passed to that variable?? – tarheels058 Feb 26 at 15:34
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you can create new objects in the universe [promptDate] = @prompt('Enter value(s) for Acct Open Dt','D',Object',Mono,Free,Persistent,,User:0)

[promptDatePlusThreeMonths] = dateadd(month, 3, [promptDate])

and add a condition in the report

WHERE Table.Date between [promptDate] and [promptDatePlusThreeMonths]

Or just create a condition in the universe:

Table.Date between @prompt('Enter value(s) for Acct Open Dt','D',Object',Mono,Free,Persistent,,User:0) and dateadd(month, 3, @prompt('Enter value(s) for Acct Open Dt','D',Object',Mono,Free,Persistent,,User:0))

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