A user recently reported that he was unable to generate any dashboards while using DashConn within SAP Crystal Dashboard Design. This set me off on what turned out to be an interesting and surprising investigation. My main lead in the investigation was that the user was working with the recently released Flash Player 11.0.1.152. Once …
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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 …