URL-variable not passed thru to session variable

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This one I found to be interesting:

The goal is to set session variables using url variables, but can you also do this for the user and password ?
url variable (&Upwd) is not passed to session variable USER_PWD.
The variable USER is correctly passed, the variable USER_PWD is not

The steps to set an OBI session variable via a URL call utilizing the

instanceconfig.xml tag should be as follows

1. Create a session init block that will act as a ‘placeholder’ for the
session variable to be set via the url call – the variable can be set to
anything.

2. Set the ‘Enable any user to set the value’ option for the variable.

3. Add the following tag block to the instanceconfig.xml file anywhere
between the <ServerInstance></ServerInstance> tags:

<Auth>
<UserIdPassword enabled=”true”>
<ParamList>
<Param name=”NQ_SESSION.TEST_VAR”
source=”url”
nameInSource=”SETVAR”/>
</ParamList>
</UserIdPassword>
</Auth>
“TEST_VAR” should match the session variable name (case sensitive).

4. The following option will need to be appended to the OBI url passed –
&SETVAR=’variable value to pass. So a full example would be:
http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&nqUser=USER001&nqPassword=US
ER001&SETVAR=SomeValue

However, note that you cannot set the value of any System Security Session variable (specifically USER, PROXY, GROUP and WEBGROUPS) using any source method (e.g.: url, cookie, httpHeader) by design. Having this ability would open possible security breaches.

If you attempt to set the USER variable with the following instanceconfig.xml setting:

<Param name=”NQ_SESSION.USER” source=”url” nameInSource=”nquser” />

You will get the following error when using the url: http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&nquser=user1&nqpassword=public

nQSError: 10018: Access for the requested connection is refused

OBIEE variable

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