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gweller
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Is there anyway to determine which dashboard my user is accessing a particular report from?

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WF_IL
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Hi

If your user customized his dashboard environment, you can see exactly his dashboards when you log into the "business intelligence view builder", choose users management , check the relevant user and then choose to edit the contents.

Yours

Eran


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Kevin Patterson
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A simple solution would be to add a footer in the report in each dashboard. Example: "Run from dashboard XYZ on date"

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Kevin Patterson
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gweller
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Perhaps a bit more background would be useful.

I have an HTML form that I present to my user. If the user accesses the report from one portal I want to conditionally remove some of the user's options vs them accessing it from another portal.

The report is complex and I would rather not have to maintain two versions.

I simply would like to be able to determine programatically the portal the user has accessed.

I am looking into adding cookies, but I dont really like the thought of having to maintain a cookie.

THoughts?


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j.gross
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Pass it as a parameter.
 
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Kevin Patterson
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yes, as j.gross mentioned, add a parameter (callingPortalName) to your report and have the portals id themselves through that parameter.


Kevin Patterson
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gweller
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Just a follow up to this.

I implemented the passing of a paramater via cookies to my HTML page based on the launch page from where the user accessed the portal.

I didnt really like this method as I was concerned about users browsers etc.

I then decided to take a poke around the portal using my old friend Mr Firebug. I noticed that when WebFOCUS displays the portal in the frame based page, that the frame with the report in it is addressed with a number of parameters including one called WORP_MPV which is the internal id of the portal.

Using this parameter and a little bit of javascript within my launch page I can now either restrict data access based on the portal accessing my report, or I can limit the launch page paramaters themselves.


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