Capability to limit user by number of reports

User_M7MRM

Hi all,

My company has a product based on OBIEE, some of our customers want to buy only few reports .

My question is: what is the best way to allow a customer to view only the reports he wants?

some additional requirements :

1. need to be part of the installation process.( maybe using a csv file with the names of the customer reports )

2. other reports need to be hidden/removed from the catalog

Thanks

Alex

[Deleted User]

a) "Analyses". "Reports" would mean BI Publisher.

b) It so heavily depends on what you've built and how. How are things stored in the web catalog? How you do authorize people? etc etc etc

User_M7MRM

1. We don't use BI publisher

2. All reports are stored in web catalog under folders, it can be that the reports which are requested by a customer are located in different folders.

need some out of the box solution

Gianni Ceresa

What Christian meant with 1) is that you call "report" a BI Publisher report, if it's built in OBIEE Answers it's called "analysis" (by using the right names we all understand the same things).

What you look for is just the security model. It's there out of the box but it's up to you to set it up. You maybe want to detail a bit more how you do thing as it's a bit confusing.

"need to be part of the installation process" : install of what? You install OBIEE to your customer place and then want to give them access to only part of the analysis? Or you only "install" (deploy) your thing in an existing OBIEE?

The more you provide as info on how you do / plan to do things, the better the answer will be.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for clarifying things Gianni.

@ OP: You developed something yourself for which we can not know how it is done in detail.

Thinking of securing things after the fact when all is done is very hard and generally a bad idea because you have already done things in a certain way and must now work with what is there.

That should have been something to think about from the beginning. Now you most likely have to invent a rather complex solution - like script-based change of folder permissions.

tl;dr it is your custom development and unless you are more precise we can hardly help you

User_M7MRM

Thanks for the replay, script-base solution looks like a good idea.  Where can I find good examples on how to changes Analysis ( thanks for the clarification )  permissions using a script? 

Gianni Ceresa

In the doc, via webservices, probably can also do something with runcat ...

As you don't want to share more that all you will get (the more you give, the more you get ...).