Is there a way to give access to a report but not to the subject area

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Hi All,

We have a group of users who need to access a particular OBIEE Report, and we would like to give access to that user alone to Report not to Subject area.

is it possible. Please reply the possible ways.

please let us know if you require more information.

Thanks,

Chandra

Robert Angel

If it is a timed report you could use a BI Agent to send it to them.

But to have direct interaction with the report but not the underlying subject area, no, unless the user has no report writing capabilities - and if they do then you could always implement an alternative no report writer user for them.

If it is a matter of data that should not be seen you could implement data level security.

There may be others but without knowing exactly what you don't user to be able to access it is hard to answer.

[Deleted User]

Apart from what Rovert said....Subject Area access in the RPD and in Answers are two completely different things.

RPD says "am I allowed to RUN queries against this Subject Area"

Answers says "am I allowed to CREATE queries against this Subject Area"

So if your users have access rights to the SA in the RPD it still doesn't mean they necessarily have the right to build their own analyses against the SA.

Just deny them the right to access the Subject Area in Answers. Whatever you or any other admin will create for them will still work. But they will not be able to create new analyses against the SA themselves.

Robert Angel

Rovert?

Or is it Rover T - my new rap name to rival Snoop Dog?!

And yes, I did not lay out the fundamentals...

[Deleted User]

v is next to b on the keyboard and I basically was just fat-fingering it :-/

Robert Angel

No offence meant or taken, let he that is without typo cast the first scone (sic)

[Deleted User]

Thanks for marking the responses Chandra. Hope you understood that the data doesn't actually have to leave the system via an Agent to fulfill that requirement...