Hi Lucy,   Great to hear it worked for you.   Controls in the report prompt area or the page prompt area automatically filter all objects in the report (or page, for a page prompt) so that is why your drop-down list must be in the body of a page. This is a common issue for users (as a user myself I find it hugely frustrating!) and the dev team is looking into a way to improve that situation. I can't promise this will be fixed, but it is a known issue.    Depending on the version of VA that you have, you might be able to convert the filter to a "common" filter that can be assigned to multiple objects. Using Common Filters    Alternatively, if you edit the filter in "Text mode", you can copy-paste the expression to facilitate making additional copies of it.   Sam ... View more

Thank you ghosh for this super helpful reply.   For anyone with a similar issue this is a great tip sheet also https://support.sas.com/rnd/app/ODSGraphics/TipSheet_GraphStyle.pdf   It addressed 2 related issues I was having, 1) I didn't know what style sheet I was using with sgplot; and 2) the info I needed was in the "parent" style not the style I was using   proc template; source styles.pearl / expand;*style & parents; run;   ... View more