Monthly Archive: June 2011

Jun 21

Obtaining User Session state from a Visualforce page

When deploying non-native content such as Flash within a Visualforce page it is often necessary to pass user session information from the page into the content. This allows the embedded content to seamlessly use the session and not inconvenience the end user with an additional login prompt. I first encountered this use case when starting …

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Jun 21

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook Review

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook succeeds in providing “Over 90 simple and incredibly effective recipes for transforming your business data into exciting dashboards”.   The book’s 10 main chapters cover progressively more complex topics, and its unique design presents step-by-step recipes for completing specific tasks. The possibilities for what one can accomplish with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards …

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