Passing Dashboard Login Page

By Emma Schwarz

When building an application using the Business Intelligence Dashboard, you may want to pass all relevant information on the command line so the user doesn't need to know the name of the public or group views, or even remember his Managed Reporting User ID.

To access a particular Dashboard public view, the view name may be added to the Dashboard URL http://machinename/ibi_apps/bid/viewname.

The view name is the public view Link URL as assigned by Dashboard when the view is created in the View Builder.

Accessing a group view is a similar process: Instead of the public view link URL, the group view link URL can be appended.

The following command can be used to connect a user to the Dashboard without using a login screen. This URL bypasses the Dashboard Login screen by placing the user name and password directly in the URL.

The values in bold must be substituted with the correct values (machine, user, and password).

http://machine/ibi_apps/bid?WORP_REQUEST_TYP
E=worp_login&WORP_USER=user&WORP_PASS=
password&

To call a particular Dashboard view and also pass login credentials, you need to add the parameter WORP_MPV to the URL, and include the view name as the parameter value.

http://machine/ibi_apps/bid?WORP_REQUEST_TYP
E=worp_login&WORP_USER=user&WORP_PASS=
password&WORP_MPV=viewname

Note that the parameter is WORP_MPV whether you are connecting to a public view or a group view.