How to pass a flash variable

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I am using dashboards 4.1. We have a portal where we access our reports. Each user has multiple accounts attached to their name so we have a prompt embedded on the portal, which let’s a user select an account that is attached to their username. It works well with web I because its the same verbiage so webi recognizes that prompt and takes in the value.

We are developing dashboards and the prompts in dashboards do not work the same way as webi. I heard about passing a flash variable, how do I achieve that? Can someone please help? Thanks.

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NycPriya (BOB member since 2010-11-04)

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Have a look at these - might get you started:

Flash issues

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parent/child flash

What am I missing? I have 4 dashboards all at the same “level”. I pass a location via a flash variable and launch the next dashboard via a radio button. Now I’m adding a 5th work area/dashboard and I can’t get the “child” dashboards to load from it. It’s 18 months since the first 4 went live and I can’t remember what I did. I launch dashboard, click another work area and nothing happens… I have a radio button that selects the work area I have a hidden url component for each radio button selec…

Debbie

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Debbie (BOB member since 2005-03-01)

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Thank you Debbie,

I actually figured it out, i had to name my flash variable “Flash Vars” and my variable data name same as my prompt name. And i tested a sample dashboard by exporting to our custom portal and voila, it worked

However, i wanted to know how it just worked. Is it because there is a functionality on our custom portal to recognize flash variables? How can i learn more about this and where?

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NycPriya (BOB member since 2010-11-04)

[system]

@NycPriya

Thank you Debbie,

I actually figured it out, i had to name my flash variable “Flash Vars” and my variable data name same as my prompt name. And i tested a sample dashboard by exporting to our custom portal and voila, it worked

Excellent! Glad it worked.

However, i wanted to know how it just worked. Is it because there is a functionality on our custom portal to recognize flash variables? How can i learn more about this and where?

No idea on that one I’m afraid. Have you tried Google?

Debbie[/quote]

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Debbie (BOB member since 2005-03-01)