116955 - no subject - Hi Forum\n\nWith regards to a filter set

lincolnf454 over 10 years ago

Hi Forum

With regards to a filter set on reports, I have used these sets successfully when filtering by time periods (e.g. using a processes start time to filter by processes commenced 1 month ago, 2 months ago etc.)

How can I implement the same thing, but rather by users that initiated the particular process? I obviously don't want to hard code each users name into the filter set - is there no way to pass through a constant into this filter set component?...

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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 10 years ago

Is this a Portal Report? If you mean the filter sets from portal reports, the answer is no, they can't take a constant.
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 10 years ago

If what you want is to display that user the processes that he/she initiated only then you can do that by using pp!initiator and comparing it with loggedinuser()
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0 lincolnf454 over 10 years ago

Alright, thanks Eduardo

What if I had to create a portal report for a managerial position who needed an easier way to filter the report per user. Is enabling the filter controls for the manager the only way to achieve this?
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
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over 10 years ago

If this is for Legacy Portal Reports then that would be the only way to offer predefined filtering. If the column in the report is of type User they can still type the user to filter by opening the Quick Filters toolbar, it's only if you want to "limit" the filters that you will need to hard-code the users in the way of filter sets
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