Permissions to rename object (OAC)

John Hopkins

In latest OAC edition "Classic OBIEE"...

Do users still need "Delete" permissions on an object in order to rename it?

Documentation is unclear, but this seems to be the case in practical use.

If so, this is incredibly frustrating. "Edit" permissions should be enough!

Thanks for input.

Gianni Ceresa

I didn't test this because I don't have an OAC instance up with multiple roles/users ...

In a way renaming is deleting: you rename an analysis which is used by a dashboard and you break the dashboard as the linked object doesn't exist anymore. Same behaviour as deleting the object completely.

"Edit" is to change the content of an object.

A rename is a "save as" + "delete", therefore there is a logic in needing the "delete" permission.

[Deleted User]

+1 to Gianni and it's still the exact same behaviour in 5.5. If you want that core behaviour to be changed your only way is an Enhancement Request and to be honest I see 0% chance of that being changed.

John Hopkins

Thanks Gianni and Christian.

We have folks developing ad-hoc analyses and saving them to a shared folder structure that they don't want to inadvertantly blow away.

At the same time, they'd at least like to be able to rename analyses that they own.

I understand the logic with regarding to objects that may be dependent on analyses, including dashboards,BI publisher data sources,and reports and such. I definitely don't want to waste my time arguing for a slightly more sane implementation.

Regards,

John

[Deleted User]

John Hopkins wrote:We have folks developing ad-hoc analyses and saving them to a shared folder structure that they don't want to inadvertantly blow away.At the same time, they'd at least like to be able to rename analyses that they own.

Yes that's perfectly understandable. Delete is pretty much like in Spiderman - With great power comes great responsibility.