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calvincoffeen
New Contributor II
3 years ago

Button Highlighting Business Rule - "Load Dashboard Server Task (Once)" running twice?

Hello, I have a problem with a couple business rules running at the wrong times from within a dashboard.  The background: I have a business rule that changes the formatting of the buttons on a da...
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  • Cosimo's avatar
    Cosimo
    3 years ago

    Calvin,

    Just a side comment: I wouldn't use a literal parameter to store the value of what button was pressed. The literal parameter is shared with all your users  and you will run into a problem where one user session overwrites the parameter value while another user session will eventually read the updated value but it doesn't reflect what the user should be seeing.

    A workaround would be to setup a runtime parameter that you then save to the dashboard parameter dictionary (i.e. args.LoadDashboardTaskInfo.CustomSubstVarsFromPriorRun in LoadDashboard section and args.SelectionChangedTaskInfo.CustomSubstVars in ComponentSelectionChanged section).

     

    Also that db_pdx said: have you tried "Tabs"

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calvincoffeen
New Contributor II

We used buttons because we use supplied parameters in a linked CV we use as a custom drill-down; we were concerned that could cause problems. However, I'm testing using tabs instead and haven't found an issue yet. Do you have any resources or forum posts you could recommend for me to learn more about session values? I don't quite know how to implement. Thanks!

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ckattookaran
VIP
3 years ago

Not sure if there is enough out there about Session State or User States. Maybe that is a good blog topic.