Use of Session Variable in Dashboard Page XML

Hi All,
Can we use a Session variable in the Dashboard Page XML?
My Requirement is,
There are 1000+ users, each user will have access to same dashboard. But a different report in the same dashboard.
So we want to Save individual user reports in the location /users/LOGIN_NAME/Financials/ABC
and dynamically change the Dashboard Page XML, to accept Session Variable VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.USER) in place of LOGIN_NAME.
So that for each user, they will see only their report.

On the face of it, Session is ideal for this, however this is SharePoint and the obvious isn't always the best.
You'd need to do the calculation about memory usage and number of concurrent users to ensure it really is a viable option in Production.
If it isn't viable, or wouldn't scale to possible future usage what would you do? Then you need to ask if it's really necessary to move between pages? If the user needs to move through a dialog for example, that could be hosted on a single page which might
have different controls or sections made visible as the user progressed through the use case.
Passing data between pages in SharePoint is a lot more difficult than it should be. Sometimes it's best to stay put, and certainly safer than using Session if you're really not sure if Session will stop your solution from scaling.
Always remember, SharePoint might be hosted on ASP.NET but the design considerations are significantly different than if this were a pure ASP.NET application.
w: http://www.the-north.com/sharepoint | t: @JMcAllisterCH | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamieMcAllisterMVP

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w: http://www.the-north.com/sharepoint | t: @JMcAllisterCH | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamieMcAllisterMVP

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