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The client application calls a specific URL (the parameter service) with all relevant parameter values already entered by the user and gets back the updated parameter list. For cascading parameters the available values may change when user parameters change.
Note: the URL to call the parameter service is included in the @param-service-url attribute of <file> elements returned in the responses to calls to the getSolutionRepositoryDoc and getSolutionRepositoryFileDetails components of the SolutionRepositoryService. Some documentation regarding this service, it's components and the param-service-url attribute may be found at Solution Repository Webservices
Element: parameters
Each parameter document uses "parameters" as tag name of the root element. The document and all elements and attributes must belong to the namespace "http://reporting.pentaho.org/namespaces/parameters/1.0".
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