Permissions dialog

Use this dialog to manage accounts and to assign permissions for a catalog object. You can also use it to replace account entries in the Access Control List (ACL).

Permissions determine which user, group, or role can view, open, or modify the object. If you are using this dialog to assign permissions to a catalog object and need more information about the privileges that further refine the tasks users can perform, see "Managing Presentation Services Privileges" in Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

For more information, see:

This dialog is also displayed as the:

Section Permissions dialog

Components

Note:

Not all components are available in each version of the dialog.

Location

Displays the folder in which the object resides.

Owner

Displays the account name of the object owner. To change the name that displays in this field, go to the Owner column in the Permission area and select the button corresponding to the account you want to assign as the owner. Note that this field sets the catalog owner of the object, which differs from setting the business owner for a KPI or scorecard object. For more information about the business owner, see "KPI editor: General Properties page."

Permissions

Use this area to manage accounts and assign permissions. Note the following options:

To manage accounts and assign permissions, use the Permissions toolbar buttons.
To assign a permission to an account, in the Permission column, select the permission from the Permission list.
- If you are working with section permissions, select Granted to include the section in the corresponding account's dashboard. Select Denied to remove the section from the corresponding account's dashboard. Where applicable, these permissions override the permissions that are set on the catalog object.
- If you are working with catalog permissions, see "Permissions Available by Object Type" and "Permission Definitions" for more information about the permission options. For information about the options available for the Custom permission option, see "Custom Permissions dialog." Note that most of the permissions in this list are compound permissions, made up of the most commonly used combinations of permissions, so when you select a permission from the list, Oracle BI EE displays a label listing what the selected permission includes. For example, if you selected the Modify permission, Oracle BI EE displays "Read, Write, Delete." If none of the permissions available in the permissions list meets your requirements, you can select the Custom option to access the Custom Permissions dialog where you can create your own compound permission for the object.
To change the owner of the object, select the button in the Owner column for the account to designate as the owner.

Note that this area also lists any Unresolved Accounts for you to manage. An unresolved account is an account for which information is no longer available, for example, an account for a user who is no longer with your organization.

Permissions Toolbar

This toolbar contains the following buttons:

Apply effective permissions — Use this button to assign permissions based on the user's membership in a group. For example, if a user belongs to the Marketing group account which has full control permissions to a Corporate Sales scorecard directory, then the user also has full control to the directory.
Replace with parent's folder permissions — Use this button to inherit the permissions defined for the highest folder in the directory hierarchy.
Set parents folders permission to "Traverse Folder" — Use this button skip over any folders to which the permissions should not be applied.
Add users/roles — Use this button to display the "Add Application Roles, Catalog Groups, and Users dialog," where you select accounts to add.
Apply permissions for selected users/roles — Displays the permissions menu. Use this menu to select a permission to assign to the selected account or accounts. To select multiple accounts, hold down the Control key and then click the accounts that you want. For more information about the permissions that you can select, see "Permissions Available by Object Type." For information about the options available for the Custom permission option, see "Custom Permissions dialog."
Delete selected users/roles — Use this button to delete the selected accounts.

Apply permissions to sub-folders

Use this option to assign permissions to the folder's subfolders, but not to the individual objects within the folder.

Apply permissions to items within a folder

Use this option to assign permissions to the folder's individual objects, but not to the subfolders within the folder.

Apply permissions to all descendants

This option is available only in the "Scorecard editor" when you apply permissions to an object in the Initiatives pane tree or the Strategy pane tree.

Use this option to assign permissions to all descendants of an object in the "Initiatives pane" or the "Strategy pane."

Replace Options

Use this list to specify how entries in the ACL are to be replaced for the object and also for its children, but only if one or more of these options are selected: Apply permissions to sub-folders, Apply permissions to items within a folder, or Apply permissions to all descendants:

Replace All — Select this option to replace the existing entries in the ACL with the entries currently in the dialog.
Replace Listed Accounts — Select this option to change only the entries currently displayed in the dialog and leave the other entries in the ACL unchanged. Make sure that you also remove the entries that you do not want changed from the list in the Permissions area.
Remove Listed Accounts — Select this option to remove only the entries currently displayed in the dialog and leave the other entries in the ACL unchanged. Make sure that you also remove the entries that you do not want changed from the list in the Permissions area.