Tree menu based on session variable?

Hi all,
is there somewhere a javascript or php or html (or extension)
tree menu
that will highlight the current branch based on a session (or
cookies, at
least) variable content?
I cannot fint it anywhere.
TIA
tony

hi Christian,
Thanks for your help,
Here is my situation, I have a fact table of very high volume, because of which reports are taking lot of time in displaying results. Recently I have been assigned one of these reports and asked to improve its performance. so, I thought to use a opaque view(thought to apply all the fact related reports filters into WHERE Clause using session variables which can bring down table volume) and then switch this table source with original fact table using 'dynamic' table under existing alias table definition with the help of session variable. The purpose of this table switch is, all existing reports will source from original fact table, where as modified report will be sourcing from opaque view.
I would like to try to your suggested approach "creating a placeholder column which contains the exact variable string content for the table source and the opaque view source respectively", but how does OBIEE switch priority of these LTS, can you please explain me this approach a bit further.
Thanks,
vijay

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