Advanced Techniques: Reference Stored Values in Variables

You might want to create an analysis whose title displays the current user's name. You can do this by referencing a variable.

You can reference several different types of variable in your analyses, dashboards, and actions: session, semantic model (repository), presentation, request, and global. Content authors can define presentation, request, and global variables themselves but other types (session and semantic model (repository) are defined for you in the semantic model.

Note: Oracle Analytics doesn’t support the variables :user and :password in data source connection credentials.

Type of Variable	Defined in	Defined by	More Information
Session System Nonsystem	Semantic model	Data model authors	About Session Variables
Semantic Model (Repository) Dynamic Static	Semantic model	Data model authors	About Semantic Model (Repository) Variables
Presentation	Prompts for analyses and dashboards	Content authors	About Presentation Variables
Request	Prompts for analyses and dashboards	Content authors	About Request Variables
Global	Analyses	Administrators	About Global Variables and Create Global Variables