# Populate Data Explorer params with URL params

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/populate-data-explorer-params-with-url-params/169404>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** data-explorer, completed\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/populate-data-explorer-params-with-url-params/169404 "2020-11-06T07:28:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![loginerror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/loginerror/32/156605_2.png) [@loginerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/loginerror)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/populate-data-explorer-params-with-url-params/169404/4 "2021-02-12T09:09:30Z")

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Bumping the topic with one more suggestion:

- having a `&run` parameter that will fire report upon page load, to save user a click
- having set of parameters that would carry user context (this way you could auto-insert the username of the current user, for example)

We would like this feature because it would allow us to easily automate internal notifications for topics for each interested user 🙂

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