Enabling Unifier Users and User Security for CIC Analytics

To bring Unifier users and user security into CIC Analytics:

  1. Sign in to Unifier.
  2. Grant access to Analytics in Unifier:
    • For all company-sponsored shells, select the following options: Unifier, Company workspace tab, Icon_Switch_to_Admin_Mode_in_Unifier Switch to Admin Mode, User Administration, Access Control, User Mode Access, Company Workspace, Non-Navigational Nodes, and then select Analytics.

      Analytics Setting for Company Sponsored Shells in Unifier

    • For all company-sponsored projects (standard), select Unifier, Company workspace,Icon_Switch_to_Admin_Mode_in_Unifier Switch to Admin Mode, Access Control, User Mode Access, Project/Shells, Non-Navigational Node, and then select Analytics.

      Analytics Settings for Projects and Shells in Unifier

    • For shell-specific permissions, select a <Shell Name>, and then select Icon_Switch_to_Admin_Mode_in_Unifier Switch to Admin Mode, Access Control, User Mode Access, Non-Navigational Nodes, and then select Analytics, as shown above.
  3. Click Add Users / Groups.
  4. From the Users / Groups window, select the intended users and / or groups and click Add.
    • For individual users or multiple users with same permissions, review the Permission Settings, adjust as needed, and click OK.
    • For multiple users with different permissions, click OK to return to the Permission Settings window.
      1. In the upper area, select users or groups.
      2. In the lower area, select Modify or View access for the selected user or group.
      3. Click OK.
      4. Click Apply to save changes and keep the window open.

        or

        Click OK to save changes and close the window.

  5. In the left pane, select Access Control, Administration Mode Access, and then expand either Company Sponsored Projects (Standard) or Company Sponsored Shells as applicable.
  6. Open the desired project.
  7. Select Add, select the desired users, and modify permissions as needed.

    Note: After permissions are setup the access doesn’t get reflected in CIC Analytics immediately.

  8. To add all users into CIC Analytics:
    1. Once all the desired users are added, select Company Workspace, Analytics and then run the Schedule to publish changes to staging tables. For more details, see Setting Up a Publishing Schedule For Unifier Data.
    2. Run the Unifier Publication service followed by the STARETL run for the permissions get reflected in Unifier staging tables.
    3. Once the user is present in the staging tables, rerun the Data Warehouse ETL to bring the user permission information into the W_USER_S table.

Related Topics

Managing Users

Assigning Unifier Users with Access to Data for CIC Analytics


Last Published Friday, December 8, 2023