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TwanMandersSDCC
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Determine the current user in Visual Analytics and show the person's name in te dashboard

Posted 01-27-2022 09:34 AM (1657 views)

How can i determine who's looking at a dashboard so i can write on top "Welcome xxxx to this dashboard" .. and how can i use this information to filter the data shown in the dashboard (row level security) ???

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Madelyn_SAS
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Re: Determine the current user in Visual Analytics and show the person's name in te dashboard

Posted 02-02-2022 09:55 AM (1463 views)  |   In reply to TwanMandersSDCC

In addition to applying the  row-level security using SUB::SAS.Userid, you would also have to have a data source that contained the user IDs. 

Here is the documentation on row-level access:

Row-Level Access

 

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