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Passing Parent Parameter to multiple generic inquires as data source

  • May 8, 2025
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Trying out the new generic inquiry as data source capabilities in 2024.

Doing a Customer Sales report combining MTD and YTD.

Created MTD Generic Inquiry - all good. Month Parameter

Created YTD Generic Inquiry - all good. Month Parameter

Created a new inquiry with the MTD and YTD as data sources however I cannot get it to work when using a Month parameter on the Parent Inquiry.

Have tried using it as per release notes (“When parameters in the parent and source inquiry share the same names, the system creates a link between these parameters”) - does not work.

Have tried Conditions and even adding it to the relation joins.

Has anyone worked out the trick to get this working?

Best answer by JeffPatch

I have past “parameters” through to the child GI DACs but I used the paramters in the joins.  But this requires design considerations.

But I am particularly interested the note from the Release notes - “When parameters in the parent and source inquiry share the same names, the system creates a link between these parameters”.  Could mean the formula name that you can only see in the XML

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    • May 12, 2025

    I have past “parameters” through to the child GI DACs but I used the paramters in the joins.  But this requires design considerations.

    But I am particularly interested the note from the Release notes - “When parameters in the parent and source inquiry share the same names, the system creates a link between these parameters”.  Could mean the formula name that you can only see in the XML

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      Freshman II

      Can you show as to how you were able to do this? We tried only adding a parameter on the parent inquiry with the same name hoping that the system automatically makes the link to the child inquiry but nothing happens.

      Is there something I need to do to explicitly pass down the parameter to the child inquiry in the parent inquiry?

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      valentynbeznosiuk
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      Hi all,

      Not sure if this is still pending, but I ran into the same issue today and wanted to share what worked on my side.

      Finding / workaround:

      • If a GI uses another GI as its data source, the child (data source) GI must expose a Parameter.

      • Once that parameter exists, go to the parent GI → Parameters tab. 

        • Make sure it’s active, othervise it won’t appear.

      • In the Name column, the parameter from the data source GI will appear in the dropdown and can be selected/mapped.

      This resolved the parameter visibility/binding issue for me.

       

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