hi ravi
1. statements run fine in separate SQL console
2. it was an Analytic View
before i send screenshots, can i ask, did you wrap View in another query or Calc View.
because from what i can now understand, a SELECT on a View will work with PLACEHOLDER, so long as the View itself has respective parameters.
in the documentation i read, it was not obvious.
so what i was trying to do was perform a Calc View over another View which did not have parameters, and so was not being passed, and was returning the full set. i just could not understand, until now, how the PLACEHOLDER works with ANOTHER SET OF PARAMETERS on the object it is being used on.
finally, Explorer 4.1 seems to work, so the variables are being prompted for, and that means the requirement for me to manually bind the variables, is no longer.
ta
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