Hide Certain Parameters Dynamically

We have a number of reports which are used by both employees and
administrators with multiple parameters. In many of these reports we have
some parameters unique to the employees which we would like to automatically
set through URL access for our employees and either hide or set them as
read-only so an employee cannot view someone else's data. However, we want
to allow the administrators to change these values so they can view data from
any employee.
So, is there any way to dynamically hide a single parameter while still
showing the remaining ones, or to dynamically make a single parameter
read-only without creating a custom front end? I don't need to know how to
pass default values, just how to programmatically change what parameters are
hidden / read-only.
Thanks in advance.
DavidDavid,
It isn't possible to hide a parameter or make it readonly. A possible
solution for this problem is to create two new reports. One for the employees
and one for the administartors. Both reports get the proper parameters which
they may change. In both reports you include an subreport, the original one
with all parameters. Now you can link the parameters from the report to the
subreport. In teh case for the employees this meens that some parameters of
your original report will have an fixed value.
This solution will also prevent employees from 'trying' out the parameters
with URL Access.
Jan Pieter Posthuma
"David Siebert" wrote:
> We have a number of reports which are used by both employees and
> administrators with multiple parameters. In many of these reports we have
> some parameters unique to the employees which we would like to automatically
> set through URL access for our employees and either hide or set them as
> read-only so an employee cannot view someone else's data. However, we want
> to allow the administrators to change these values so they can view data from
> any employee.
> So, is there any way to dynamically hide a single parameter while still
> showing the remaining ones, or to dynamically make a single parameter
> read-only without creating a custom front end? I don't need to know how to
> pass default values, just how to programmatically change what parameters are
> hidden / read-only.
> Thanks in advance.
> David|||Thanks for the reply, I think I may have found a way that will work for our
needs using linked reports. I created a linked report to the original, and
hid any parameters that the employee does not need to change. It solves the
problem of having to maintain and edit 2 reports when changes are made, and
appears to have solved my issue with being able to change parameter settings
for the 2 separate versions.
"Jan Pieter Posthuma" wrote:
> David,
> It isn't possible to hide a parameter or make it readonly. A possible
> solution for this problem is to create two new reports. One for the employees
> and one for the administartors. Both reports get the proper parameters which
> they may change. In both reports you include an subreport, the original one
> with all parameters. Now you can link the parameters from the report to the
> subreport. In teh case for the employees this meens that some parameters of
> your original report will have an fixed value.
> This solution will also prevent employees from 'trying' out the parameters
> with URL Access.
> Jan Pieter Posthuma
> "David Siebert" wrote:
> > We have a number of reports which are used by both employees and
> > administrators with multiple parameters. In many of these reports we have
> > some parameters unique to the employees which we would like to automatically
> > set through URL access for our employees and either hide or set them as
> > read-only so an employee cannot view someone else's data. However, we want
> > to allow the administrators to change these values so they can view data from
> > any employee.
> >
> > So, is there any way to dynamically hide a single parameter while still
> > showing the remaining ones, or to dynamically make a single parameter
> > read-only without creating a custom front end? I don't need to know how to
> > pass default values, just how to programmatically change what parameters are
> > hidden / read-only.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > David