Setting dashboard prompt in agent?

Hi everyone,
i have a dashboard including a prompt, which filters the dashboard data for the selected organizational unit. Now i would like to create one (preferred) or more (if i have to) agents, which deliver the dashboard as one pdf per organizational unit. But i cannot find a way to configure the dashboard prompt from the agent.
Is this possible in any way? Or will i have to use the Burst feature of BI Publisher? I would not really like this solution, because i don't have the time to rebuild my dashboard as a Publisher report.
Thank you for your help.
Greetings
Christoph

Have you looked into dynamic variables in the repository - the Oracle by example repository building details this well - and you can associate specific users or groups to effect a dyanamic population of variables which could be used to act as filters on your reports.
Combine this with (say) delivers and you have dynamic report delivery by organisation with as many other dynamic parameters as you wish, provided you can populate them with SQL.
If you find this helpful please award points.
Regards,
Robert.

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