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Minimum permissions required to read Essbase application Outline

edited Aug 2, 2018 2:36AM in Essbase 2 comments

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Minimum permissions required to read Essbase application Outline

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Hi,

We have an application that utilises the Essbase API to read the Outline from an Essbase application. User permissions are configured using Oracle Shared Services. The EssOtlOpenOutline API function is used with the locking argument ESS_FALSE as our application does not require write access to the Outline but read only access.

We are having trouble understanding exactly what permissions are required to provide a user account with the minimum permissions needed just to read the outline from one specific Essbase application. On another Essbase instance that we connect to the user account has the below permissions that allow us to successfully read that applications outline:

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