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Good evening all,

I have a portal issue that is making me crazy, any help would be greatly appreciated......

I have a Portal, it contains about 8 tabs with multiple reports on each tab. My Banner is to the left and contains a html form that contains all parameters for the reports, one of the parameters is a location drop-down list that is populated with a fex. The values in this drop-down list are determined by the security levels of each user logging in to the portal. My reports all run fine and the html works fine and passes the parameters with no issues. The problem is on the first run (Load) of the portal and all the reports. What I need it to do is run the html first and use the top value of the location drop-down to populate the reports with. Currently I have a default value in the fexes and this is what the reports display on load, this is an issue because of the security. Not everyone can see the same locations. I don't have a single location that everyone is allowed to see that I can use as a default, so I really need to figure out a way to make the reports read the first value of the drop-down list when the portal loads, has anyone else run into this? I have opened a case but no answer yet.

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have every fex that runs on load to call the fex the loads the location dropdown and limit it to show the first record. Then do a readfile where you can load the parameter with the location in it. Pass that parameter to the calling fex.


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You can also have a fex included in the _universal_profile that will assign a global variable (&&var) having the security location defined for the login user (and as many other variable that you want) and then use that variable to populate your reports.

Per example you will have at the first step of each report:
-* If &&SECURITY_LOC from _universal_profile fex gives access to ALL location based on user security,
-* verify if user have selected a location on HTML otherwise show ALL location.
-* If &&SECURITY_LOC from _universal_profile fex assign a specific location based on user security, then show only that location
-SET &HTML_LOC = IF &&SECURITY_LOC EQ 'ALL' THEN (IF &HTML_LOC EQ 'ALL' THEN FOC_NONE ELSE &HTML_LOC) ELSE &HTML_LOC;


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have every fex that runs on load to call the fex the loads the location dropdown and limit it to show the first record. Then do a readfile where you can load the parameter with the location in it. Pass that parameter to the calling fex.


Jay,
Thank you I didn't think of that. I will give it a try.


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Originally posted by MartinY:
You can also have a fex included in the _universal_profile that will assign a global variable (&&var) having the security location defined for the login user (and as many other variable that you want) and then use that variable to populate your reports.

Per example you will have at the first step of each report:
-* If &&SECURITY_LOC from _universal_profile fex gives access to ALL location based on user security,
-* verify if user have selected a location on HTML otherwise show ALL location.
-* If &&SECURITY_LOC from _universal_profile fex assign a specific location based on user security, then show only that location
-SET &HTML_LOC = IF &&SECURITY_LOC EQ 'ALL' THEN (IF &HTML_LOC EQ 'ALL' THEN FOC_NONE ELSE &HTML_LOC) ELSE &HTML_LOC;


Thank You,


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