Personalizing Variables in Web Applications

Use

You can personalize either individual variables or all variables in a Web application. By doing this, you permanently assign a value to the variables that remains valid until you remove the personalization again. With personalization, you do not have to make repeated manual settings - your personal settings - for a variable.

Prerequisites

You are in the variables screen in a web application that underlies a query as a data provider with variables.  To enable personalization of the variables, click on Show Personalization of Variableson the right side of the Variables screen.In the upper part of the variables screen, the area for the personalized variables now appears.

Procedure

Personalizing Variables

  1. Under General Variables ,assign a value to the variable that you want to personalize and select this variable (see Working with the Variable Screen ).
  2. Click on (Add Selected Variable to the List of Personalized Variables)or  (Add All Variables to the List of Personalized Variables). In this step, you have already personalized the variable. The variable value that you have personalized is now displayed in the list of personalized variables (Personalized Values screen area).
  3. To execute the personalized variable values, choose OK. The query is now displayed with the personalized values.

Personalizing Changed Values

If you change or overwrite a personalized variable value in the Personalized Values screen area and you want this change to be permanent and visible in the Web Application, choose Personalize Changed Values.

Retrieving Personalizations

If you have changed a personalized variable value in the Personalized Values screen area, but you want to apply and display the original variable value, choose Retrieve Personalization.

Deleting Personalizations

  1. On the variables screen, delete the personalized variable that you want to delete.
  2. Click on (Remove Selected Variable from the List of Personalized Variables)or  (Remove All Variables from the List of Personalized Variables).