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Setting Permissions in Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration


Using the Change Item Permissions screen in Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration, you can, for Presentation Catalog items such as dashboards, dashboard pages, folders, and so on:

  • Change the explicit permissions granted to Presentation Services groups and users
  • Add explicit permissions for Presentation Services groups and users

To access the Change Item Permissions screen

  • Follow the appropriate steps for the item for which you want to set permissions:
To access the Change Permissions screen for:
Do this:

A dashboard

  1. Log in to Oracle BI Presentation Services.
  2. Choose Settings > Administration.
  3. Click the Manage Interactive Dashboards link.
  4. Click the Permissions icon associated with the dashboard whose permissions you want to change.

A dashboard page

  1. Log in to Oracle BI Presentation Services.
  2. Choose Settings > Administration.
  3. Click the Manage Interactive Dashboards link.
  4. Select a dashboard and click Properties.
  5. In the Dashboard Pages area, click the Page Security icon associated with the dashboard page whose permissions you want to change.

Any other Presentation Catalog item

  1. Log in to Oracle BI Presentation Services.
  2. Choose Settings > Administration.
  3. Click the Manage Presentation Catalog link.
  4. Click the Permissions icon associated with the item whose permissions you want to change. Note that you may need to click a folder link and drill down to the item.

To change explicit permissions

  1. In the Users and groups with explicit access to this item table:
    • If you want to change the permission granted to a Presentation Services group or user, click the permission associated with the Presentation Services group or user and toggle to the permission that you want.

      The toggle proceeds in a ring from No Access > Traverse Folder > Read > Change/Delete > Full Control.

    • If you want to remove the explicit permission, click the Remove permissions for user/group icon associated with the Presentation Services group or user.
  2. Click the Replace permissions with parent folder's permissions link, if appropriate.
  3. Select one or both of the following options, as appropriate:
    • Apply permissions to sub-folders
    • Apply permissions to items within folder
  4. Click Finished.

To add explicit permissions

  1. In the Additional groups Add Explicit Permissions table, locate the Presentation Services group or user for whom you want to assign explicit permissions to the item and click the associated Add link.

    To help you locate the group or user you want, you can:

    • Show only users in the Additional groups Add Explicit Permissions table, by using the Show users and groups toggle
    • Search for a Presentation Services group or user to add using the Search field
    • Show effective (that is, inherited) permissions in the Additional groups Add Explicit Permissions table by selecting the Show effective permissions checkbox.
  2. (Optional) In the Users and groups with explicit access to this item table, toggle to the type of permission you want to assign to the group or user you just added.
  3. Click Finished.
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