Hi all,
Can someone confirm for me whether it should or should not be possible to show in a flex header some interpretation of data that is not available to the current control group? Perhaps by referencing a secure view, or other method?
For example I'd like to show in a flex header for our ticket sellers whether a donor has made a large contribution to the current annual fund, but contribution data is control grouped away from our ticketing personnel.
Thanks everyone!
Jeffrey,
It should be possible; I've just logged onto another user group for our database which can't view the contributions tab and the user group still has information about the Last Contrib, Last Fund, and 12 Month Giving in the header.
I think the documentation specifically references using secure views to display that data (see http://www.tessituranetwork.com/help_system_v125/content/system_tables/TR_FLEX_HEADER_ELEMENT.htm).
Thank you,
Brian
Hi Jeffrey,
As Brian notes, this is entirely possible. Whilst normally you'd create the Flex Header Element to reference a secure view (VS_<etc>) directly referencing the data table would bypass control grouping. Be careful though - your users might see more than you bargained for - as with everything it's test, test and then test again!
Martin