We have a BI Dashboard where Global (&&) variables are important. It seems like if we leave the screen open for some period of time with no interaction on the dashboard, and then click a link to run a fex, the global variables no longer exist. But the fact that we woke something up by running that fex seems to make the variables available to subsequent requests.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

I wonder if it could be something to do with a session cookie expiring ?

It has been a while, but the globals are stored in a file in the temp directory of the client installation. The _TempFileTimeout is defaulted to 900 seconds. That means that the global variable file is then deleted after 900 seconds after it is created. The global file is re-created every time you run a request. However, after 15 minutes of inactivity, it would be deleted. I believe that if you change that value to the same number as the session timeout, then you might stop this.

I am not sure if this is related but in data migrator version 7.7 - in odin.cfg I need to add persisent global

;HTTP Listener
NODE = LST_HTTP
BEGIN
PROTOCOL = HTTP
PORT = 8117
CLASS = AGENT
SECURITY = IWA
PERSISTENT_GLOBAL = 1
END

This may also help? http://techsupport.information...om/sps/41982045.html