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How-To: Write a query supporting a case-insensitive dashboard parameter?

Last Updated: 2023-01-12

Dashobard parameters, or user inputs, can be created by putting the ? character in front of the parameter name withing your query. For example, ?username would create a username input. These are used within dashboards to allow user-configurable input parameters, but they can also be used in queries. The inputs are case-sensitive by default. This means that an input of ADministrator would not match administrator, Administrator and so on.

The solution is to use the test() function and compare everything in lower-case. For example:

// The input is "?MyInput" and we want to match it to "UserName".
 
// First we have to assign the input to a field, otherwise it doesn't work with test().
thisInput:=?MyInput
 
// Next we compare the two strings in lower-case to see if they're equal.
test(lower(thisInput) == lower(UserName))

Because we're comparing everything in lowercase, an input of administrator would match Administrator, ADMinistrator, AdMiNiSTRATOR, etc.