When you create a selection-dependent group prompt for a SAS Stored Process, the following error might be generated:

a value is required for the following prompts:

  <prompt name here>

The problem occurs when a prompt within the group that you create is set to Requires a non-blank value. To illustrate the problem, consider the following sample for SAS Stored Process prompts:

 Sport -  Selection Group 

   Baseball    -  Selection-dependent group (under "Sport" group)
      Gloves   -  text prompt ( "Requires a non-blank value" checked)
      Bats     -  text prompt ( "Requires a non-blank value" checked)

   Soccer      -  Selection-dependent group  (under "Sport" group)
      Shoes    -  text prompt ( "Requires a non-blank value" checked)
      Jerseys  -  text prompt ( "Requires a non-blank value" checked) 
  

Suppose that you run the SAS Stored Process, select the following prompt values, and click Run:

     Baseball
        Gloves -> select a value for gloves
        Bats   -> select a value for bats
 

Because Gloves and Bats are both set to Requires a non-blank value, you might receive the following error message:

Message from webpage

A value is required for the following prompts:

Shoes
Jerseys

This error occurs only when you use a web browser to run the SAS Stored Process. The error does not occur when you run the SAS Stored Process from SAS^® Enterprise Guide^®.

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