RESOLVED Session Variable and Report generation

[bpothier]

I am wondering if it is possible to do the following:

User logs into cognos
User picks a report to run
report is run for him only without a prompt by using session variable or something.

Basically capturing their login information and using that as the default variable when they run reports so they don;t continually have to select their name from a drop down list

[MFGF]

There is a session parameter which you may be able to use - $account.defaultName - you will need to have a macro somewhere to reference it.

Regards,

MF.

[bpothier]

Here is what I did

I created a calculated field in framewrok manager for the query subject I needed it in
Then I created a filter on the report that matched the value returned in that field with one in the report that contained the same data

works like a charm

thanks