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Setting Permissions of Presentation Catalog Items

Permissions are used to control access to Presentation Catalog items.

For more information about permissions in Oracle BI Presentation Services, read Managing Oracle BI Presentation Services Security.

To set permissions of a Presentation Catalog item

1. In Catalog Manager, open the Presentation Catalog.
2. Navigate to the item.
3. Right-click the item in the Name column and choose Permissions.

   The Permissions dialog box displays these two lists:

   • Users and groups (Explicit Permissions) list — Shows the users and groups that have explicit permissions granted to this item.
   • Additional users and groups (Effective Permissions) list — Shows the users and groups that have access granted though group inheritance, and users and groups that have no access to the request.
4. If the item whose permissions you want to set is in the Additional users and groups (Effective Permissions) list, move it into the Users and groups (Explicit Permissions) list by selecting it and clicking the left arrow button (<).

   NOTE:  To view groups only, select the Show groups only option.

5. Select the item in the Users and groups (Explicit Permissions) list.
6. Select the new permission from the drop-down list in the Permissions column:

   Permission	What It Means
   No Access	Denies the user or group access to the item. Explicitly denying access takes precedence over any other permission.
   Read	Allows the user or groups to view the item, but not make any changes.
   Traverse	Allows the user or groups to access objects in folders within the selected folder when the user does not have permission to the selected folder. Example: The user is granted Traverse permission to the /shared/test folder. The user cannot access objects in the /shared/test folder, but can access objects stored in lower-level folders, such as /shared/test/guest.
   Change/Delete	Allows the user or group to view, change, or delete the item.
   Full Control	Allows the user or group to have full control over the item. This is the level of authority granted by default to the preconfigured Administrator user ID.

7. Click the Apply Permissions: Recursively option, if appropriate.
8. Click OK.

NOTE:  If you move a user or group from the Users and groups (Explicit Permissions) list to the Additional users and groups (Effective Permissions) list, the user or group privileges are reset to No Access. To move a user or group from one list to another, highlight it and click the right or left arrow button, as appropriate.