Security for Views and Viewpoints
This table lists the minimum combined user roles and permissions required for views and viewpoints.
Viewpoints | You need this permission | You need this View permission |
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Create a view Note: You need the Views - Create role. After you create a view, you are automatically assigned the Owner permission to the default view. |
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Assign permissions on a view |
Owner on the view | |
Update application data in a viewpoint using requests Note: The assigned data access, viewpoint allowed actions, and editable property settings determine the actions you can take on nodes and properties. |
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Create, edit, archive, or delete a viewpoint |
Data Manager or Metadata Manager for the application | Owner for the view containing the viewpoint |
Create a subscription in a viewpoint |
Data Manager or Metadata Manager for the dimension | Owner for the view containing the viewpoint |
Copy a viewpoint | Owner for the dimension | Owner for the view containing the viewpoint |
Browse, inspect, compare, validate, or download viewpoints |
Complete Participant (Read) permission on the node set, as follows:
Note: If you do not have complete Participant (Read) permission on a node set, the viewpoints for that node set are not displayed when you open a view. |
No view permission is needed to browse a viewpoint Note: Owner permission on the view that contains a viewpoint does not enable you to see the viewpoints in that view. You must have complete Participant (Read) permission to a node set in a viewpoint in order to see that viewpoint when you open a view. For example, if you have View permission on a view that contains five viewpoints, but you have Participant (Read) permission to data objects in only three of those viewpoints, when you open the view you will see only those three viewpoints. |
Open or inspect a view | Participant (Read) permission on any data object in any viewpoint in that view |
Owner permission on the view will enable you to open the view; however, you need Participant (Read) permission on a data object in a viewpoint in that view in order to see any viewpoints in that view. |
Edit or archive a view | Owner for the view |
Note:
A Service Administrator can see and update all views and viewpoints and assign permissions to a view.