About Contexts and Prompts

The BI Semantic Layer RESTful Web Service SDK provides methods that allow you to do the following:

  • Resolve contexts in universes
  • Answer @prompts in universes
  • Answer object parameters defined in data foundations and business layers, and used as filters or in @prompts.

The following features are also supported in the present release:

  • Index-aware parameters
  • Optional and non optional parameters
  • Cascading parameters
  • Index-aware lists of values
  • Lists of values with multiple columns

See the Information Design Tool User Guide for more information on contexts, @prompts, and object parameters.

The Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK provides methods that allow you to do the following:

  • Resolve contexts in Web Intelligence documents
  • Identify and fill in prompts with values to refresh documents

The following features are also supported in the present release:

  • Optional and non optional prompts
  • Cascading prompts
  • Lists of values with multiple columns
Note In the next sections of the present guide, the term parameter refers to the element defined in the XML streams manipulated by the web service. It represents contexts, @prompts, and object parameters.