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Francis Mariani
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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,


Francis


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


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dhagen
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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.


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Good One


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jammer
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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


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