How can I restrict my user from seeing certain content?

Scenario

You’re database contains a list of all your customers and their annual sales figures. You’re users need to be able to see the sales figures but you want restrict who can see the company names to staff in your Finance department.

Solution

User Variables will allow you to change what each of them can see at an individual user level. In the following example, we made a change at object level in Data Connections that will display asterisks instead of the Customer Name when this object is used on the dashboard.

We then used a Variable for one user that will display the Customer Name in full when they use the same object on the dashboard.

Process

The steps below show how we achieved this: