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These are a series of, not necessarily related, variables that pertain to the general operation of the dashboard. Please refer to System Variables for more information.
Images: Here you can define the directory path in which images are stored for use in, for example, category object visualisation. You can also provide an extension, although, if null, it will default to .png.
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To enable this, you must ensure that users have an email address specified in their User account and that external login has been enabled. |
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ENABLE_OPENING_DASHBOARD_AS_TAB: Allows you to specify whether new browser tabs are used for viewing the dashboard.
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This setting should be unticked when embedding the dashboard as categories could be opened in new browser tabs outside the container application. |
PDF_DATE_FORMAT: Here you can overwrite the default date format (yyyy-MM-dd) that is used in the timestamp on system generated PDFs.
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This section contains a list of user maintainable variables. To create a new variable click the ‘Add’ icon in the upper right hand corner, a new blank line will then be created where you can enter the name of the variable and it’s current value.
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Feb 2022: All variables that are marked as ‘Key Secure’ will be obscured in Dashboard Configuration. |
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Like User Variables, these variables can be utilised throughout the system, in this case, by addressing them as [[VARIABLE_NAME]]. This functionality could for example be used in (not a definitive list!):
Default Values for Category Objects
Within the SQL Select Command
In Chart Filters
In a Data Connection
Duplicating Variables
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Any variable which overrides a variable already defined in the system, will have it’s security level set to the same as the variable which has already been defined and this cannot be modified. |
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