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Beeswing77
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2 years ago
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How to use the Text1 field from a user's security profile as a parameter in a dashboard

I have a dashboard that pulls Workflow status information.  It is currently hard coded to look at a top level Workflow parent, as it is for Group use only. I want to make this dashboard available f...
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  • JackLacava's avatar
    JackLacava
    2 years ago

    You said you want to avoid a BR, so what about this Substitution Variable |UserText1| ? This example uses Text4:

     

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JackLacava
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2 years ago

I'm a bit confused. Is this what you have in mind?

  1. when the dashboard loads, it looks up the Text1 property of the user
  2. Text1 contains a single value (the workflow name?)
  3. You must take this value and feed it to some adapter
  • Beeswing77's avatar
    Beeswing77
    New Contributor III
    2 years ago

    Yes, correct.

    • JackLacava's avatar
      JackLacava
      Icon for OneStream Employee rankOneStream Employee
      2 years ago

      You said you want to avoid a BR, so what about this Substitution Variable |UserText1| ? This example uses Text4:

       

      • Beeswing77's avatar
        Beeswing77
        New Contributor III
        2 years ago

        Perfect!  That works.