OBIEE report filter and delivery ibots

Question

Hi All,
One of my reports (with 20 cols) consists of multiple rows with repeated customer names (about 100 distinct customer names and approx total 5000 rows). We wanted to automatically filter out the report on customer names and send the filtered reports to the respective customers. So these 100 customers will receive their own 50 rows. We were wondering how we should go about doing this. We thought of maybe using a) iBots or b) GO URL with dummy dashboard. I was wondering if anyone has experience tackling this issue and what will be the high level design steps that will be required.
Thanks.
~Shiv

Answer 1

You must filter the data directly in the RPD.
1)
Create a session variable that contains the name (or ID or whatever) of the customer.
If the name of the customer is the login he will use to connect to OBIEE, you can use :USER.
Example 1 : suppose you have a table that contains list of customer with their name and their login.
Select name from customer where login = ':USER'
That is your initialization block that will populate your "customerVAR" session variable.
Example 2 : you don't have such a table, but customer name = customer obiee login
go directly to point 2
2)
Filter the table with this variable.
Example 1 :
+"table.customer = valueof(NQ_SESSION.customerVAR)"+
Example 2 :
+"table.customer = ':USER'+
3)
As a result, when a customer will connect to OBIEE and display the report, the data will be filtered. He will see only data that he's authorized to see.
When you will create your iBot, this filter will be used depending on the destinary (= the customer).