[GitHub] anthonymhho opened a new issue #3608: Request for a filter box with user-level filtering capabilities.

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anthonymhho opened a new issue #3608: Request for a filter box with user-level filtering capabilities.
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/issues/3608
 
 
   Imagine you've connected a data source to Superset, containing data on all your clients and their corresponding account managers. To help the account managers perform their jobs better, you decide to build a beautiful dashboard containing all the right charts and visuals. However, these account managers shouldn't be able another account manager's client data.
   
   If you only have a handful of account managers (AMs), you can split the master data set into account manager-specific subsets before importing it to Superset, and then create tables from there. Problem solved.
   
   What if you have hundreds of AMs? One way to go about this is create a single dashboard with slices associated to the master data set, add a filter box, select the AM you want to narrow the data down to, and then export the report as a static image. This has several drawbacks:
   1. The dashboard the AM receives is a static image.
   2. Someone has to do apply the filter and perform the export manually each time.
   3. AMs have to wait for someone to send them the report each time they want it.
   
   Now, if it were possible to adapt the existing filter box to auto-detect the Superset user and auto-apply a preset filter, then disable the dropdown menu from being changed, you could do away with those 3 drawbacks.
   
   Of course there are millions of other ways to go about this, but thought I'd throw this out there.
 
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