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Beeswing77
New Contributor III
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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RobbSalzmann
Valued Contributor II
11 months ago

Hi Beeswing77 ,  Parameters are frustrating to me in this regard.  

In your situation, I would use an XFBR rule to query and return the text1 value.  This takes parameters out of the whole equation and puts the code in your hands.

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Beeswing77
New Contributor III
11 months ago

I was hoping to avoid a BR, as I'm not quite sure where to start with one.  If that's the only option though I might have to look into that.