Gianni, yes, that will work. And it that's what I must do, then I will But I would still like to know that there either is, or absolutely is not, a way to refer to system session variables in the RPD. Thanks for the reply and the suggestion.

An init block would be just fine as well. My problem is the syntax: When a user has set their timezone using the My Account option at the top right of the OBIEE screen, I don't know how to write the correct syntax, in an RPD object, to refer to that. In an analysis, I can refer to it using the Presentation Services syntax,…

Thank you for the reply, Christian. I think I see that I should be using DATA_TZ. But I'm still not finding the right syntax to reference it in a business model layer column. For example, VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.DATA_TZ) returns "The session variable NQ_SESSION.DATA_TZ has no value definition." (Also, the 2nd screenshot appears…