Some may think that the scope of the prompts do not work and are broken; but, they do work and are not broken! You just need to know what it really does. So when you specify a dashboard prompt as scope-> ‘page’, what this does is say that any selections made for this prompt will not be used to set other prompts within the dashboard. When you specify a dashboard prompt’s scope-> ‘dashboard’, this says that any selection of this prompt will be reflected in other prompts within the dashboard. I think people get it confused and think that the ‘page’ scope shields the prompt from receiving selections from other ‘dashboard’ scope prompts; but, it does not. The scope is only there to specify if the selection within the prompt will be local (page) or global (dashboard).
So for any issues where your prompt is still being set by other page prompts within the dashboard, the reason is due to the other prompt having scope-> ‘dashboard’. If you do not want this behavior within the dashboard, set all the prompts’ scope to ‘page’. So with this knowledge you will know when to set a prompt to ‘dashboard’ or ‘page’. ‘Overview’ or ‘Summary’ dashboard pages are a good example of using ‘dashboard’ scope for its prompts, while the other pages in the dashboard are set for ‘page’ scope.
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