Oracle Discoverer Administrator Administration Guide 10g (9.0.4) Part Number B10270-01 |
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Use this tab to grant privileges to users or roles (role is replaced with responsibility for Oracle Applications users). For example, to enable Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Desktop and Discoverer Plus end users to create and edit queries, drill down, and drill out, but not allow them to save workbooks to the database.
For more information, see:
"About Discoverer and security"
Select this check box to display users in the drop down list to the right.
Select this check box to display roles in the drop down list to the right.
Use the drop down list to choose the user or role whose privileges you want to configure. For example, choose jchan to display the privileges for jchan in the Privilege field.
Use this check box to grant or revoke the ability of the currently selected user or role to use Discoverer Administrator.
Use this check box to grant or revoke the ability of the currently selected user or role to use Discoverer Desktop and Discoverer Plus.
Use the check boxes in the fields under the Administration Privilege and Desktop and Plus Privilege check boxes, to grant or revoke privileges to the currently selected user or role as follows:
This field displays a brief description about the currently selected privilege.
Use this drop down list to specify an Oracle system profile to apply to the user. This allows you to apply pre-defined sets of privileges to users and roles.
Privilege Name | Description |
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Desktop and Plus Privilege |
Granting this privilege, allows the user or role to log in to Discoverer Desktop and Discoverer Plus. Note that to allow the user to access the features in Discoverer Desktop and Discoverer Plus, you must select individual Desktop features (privileges) listed below this privilege.This check box must be selected in order to grant any of the privileges listed below. |
Create/Edit Query |
Granting this privilege, allows the user or role to create new worksheets (queries) and modify existing ones. Without this privilege, the user can only open and run existing (predefined) workbooks and worksheets. |
Collect Query Statistics |
Granting this privilege, saves performance statistics when this user runs worksheets/workbooks (queries).If you clear this check box query prediction estimates might be less accurate. For more information, see "Predicting query performance". |
Item Drill |
Granting this privilege, allows the user or role to drill to detail and related information in the worksheet. In addition to granting this privilege, you must create the drill using the Item Class wizard before the user will be able to use this function. |
Drill Out |
Granting this privilege, allows the user or role to launch another application to see related information by drilling on an item in the worksheet. In addition to granting this privilege, you must create the drill using the Item Class wizard before the user will be able to use this function. |
Grant Workbook |
Granting this privilege, allows the user or role to grant access to their workbooks so other users can run and view them. |
Schedule Workbooks |
Granting this privilege, allows the user to schedule a workbook to run at a later time and at regular intervals (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly). Note: You cannot grant this privilege to a role. |
Save Workbooks to Database |
Granting this privilege, allows the user or role to save the workbooks they create in the database. By default, Discoverer Desktop workbooks are saved on the user's hard drive. |
Change Password |
Note: This privilege is not used in this release. |
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