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Beeswing77
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11 months 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
    11 months 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
Community Manager
11 months 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
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Beeswing77
New Contributor III
11 months ago

Yes, correct.

  • JackLacava's avatar
    JackLacava
    Community Manager
    11 months ago

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

     

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      Beeswing77
      New Contributor III
      11 months ago

      Perfect!  That works.