System Administrator Request Set Privileges
As System Administrator, you can:
- create request sets that include any reports or concurrent program.
- query and edit all request sets using the Request Set form.
After you define a request set, you can assign a user to be its owner if you want the user to be able to run or edit this request set from any responsibility. Request sets without an owner cannot be edited or updated by any end users. In this way, you can guarantee print options and report parameters for a request set. You can also later edit the request set to remove or change its ownership properties.
Other users can also run a request set if you, as System Administrator, assign the request set to their responsibility's request security group. If you do not assign a request set to a request security group, then only the owner can run the request set. In this way, you can grant access to reports and concurrent programs on a user-by-user basis.
Request Security Groups, Request Sets, and Reports
As System Administrator you can add any request set, including private request sets, to a request security group. This allows you to provide members of a responsibility access to reports and programs outside their request security group.
Request set editing and report viewing privileges are different for reports that belong to a user's request security group than they are for reports that are not in the user's request security group.
- cannot edit the request set.
- cannot run an individual report by itself, but can only run the entire request set.
- can add any other requests in their request security group to the request set.
- can delete any request from the request set, regardless of whether that report is in their request security group.
- can update print options or parameters for an individual report in the request set, if the report is in their request security group.
- cannot run an individual report by itself, but can only run the entire request set.
System Administrator Benefits from Request Sets
Request sets offer three main benefits to System Administrators:
1. Request sets offer a means of controlling access to concurrent programs on a user-by-user basis.
By defining a request set, assigning it an owner, and then not assigning the request set to any request security group, the reports and programs in the request set are only available to the owner.
2. By leaving the Owner field blank, System Adminstrators can create request sets whose individual programs and parameters cannot be edited or updated by end users.
Only a System Administrator can edit a request set that has no owner.
3. System Administrators can provide members of a responsibility access to reports and programs outside their request security group.
By defining a request set that contains reports or programs not in a request security group, and assigning that request set to the request security group, users can be granted run, but not edit privileges for selected reports or programs.
See Also
Overview of Concurrent Programs and Requests
Request Sets and Owners
Request Set Incompatibilities
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