Has anyone found a solution for bursting?

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Hello… in other reporting tools there is usually a capability to burst a report. Meaning… Bursting is the process of running a report once and then dividing the results for recipients who each view a subset of the data. … For example, salespeople in different regions each need a report showing the sales target for their country or region..

It seems there is “almost” that capability .. in the “Run as User” option, which is almost there, but you have to know who the recipients are and add their email addresses in the list, but the idea behind bursting is that the system knows who is in that report and slices it up automatically and sends it to the email addresses it sees IN the report.

Has anyone found a solution for this?

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Hi, you can achieve this by creating user_attributes.

For example, you have a country filter in your dashboard and you want users to see their corresponding country whenever they access the dashboard. You will need to create a user_attribute and then map it to the country filter.

This same behavior applies for scheduled deliveries, whenever you choose “Run schedule as recipient”.

https://help.looker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001285967-Parameterizing-Filters-with-User-Attributes

Hope this helps!

ps. later on, you could manage the user_attributes with groups to automate the user onboarding.