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tnicholas
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I need somehting I can put into a URL that when a BI Dashboard users access the dashboard that hides the address bar?

Or if there is some HTML/Java script that I could add to the dashbaord launch page that would hide it also? That would work as well.
 
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Francis Mariani
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"This is no longer possible in modern browsers due to security restrictions."

Something to read: StackOverflow: Hiding the address bar of a browser

And you most certainly cannot do it to the current window.


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Waz
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Yes, I found out the same thing this year.

The address is always shown, I guess for security reasons.


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Maybe if you tell us why the address bar needs to be hidden we might be able to help you find an alternative solution.

Do you want the users to not navigate to a new page?
If this is the case, you might be able to open the window in a popup when the user can't access the browser url but they can still see it.

Or do you not want the users to see sensitive data?
You might be able to use different joins to hide the data or you can look into character encoding, etc.

Or is the link just misleading?
Change the initial url to reports.yourcompany.com or whatever. OR if you have a website where the user has to login, you can have a frame with the dashboard in it. The URL will look something like this:

https://reports.myCompany.com/...ORP_PASS=mypassword&

Or is there some other reason?


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tnicholas
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We would prefer that the users not see where they are navigating to, for security reasons.

Thank you
 
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You might be able to use my third suggestion and have the dashboard page within a large frame on your own website. They could obviously see the url if they looked at the frame source, but they wouldn't see the link off the bat.

You can see the url anyways by just viewing the main dashboard frame via firebug. Or if you have a smarter user, they can do something like
 
javascript:alert(window.location);

or even craftier in their browser url.
If you run things in the terminal, you can do more...

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Waz
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We have done the same thing, run the app in an IFRAME, so all you see is the initial URL.

But if a user really wants to find out stuff, then they will. You just can't stop it.


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