About Assigning Access Permissions

Service Administrators can assign permissions to artifacts (forms, dashboards, infolets, reports, books, and bursting definitions) and folders.

Principles:

• Artifacts (Forms, Dashboards, Infolets, Reports, Books, and Bursting Definitions):

  • Users and Power Users can view or enter data only into forms to which they have permissions (and can work only with members to which they have permissions).

  • Service Administrators and Power Users can design artifacts.

  • Power Users can access artifacts they created or to which a Service Administrator assigned them permissions.

  • Service Administrators have Write permissions to all dimension members and to all artifacts.

• Folders:

  • Users who are assigned permissions to a folder can access the items in that folder, unless they are assigned more specific permissions.

  • When you assign permissions to a folder, all folders under it inherit that permission.

  • If you assign specific permissions (for example, None or Write) to a folder, that permission takes precedence over its parent folder's permissions. For example, if a user has Write permission to Folder1 that contains Folder2 to which the user has None permission, the user can open Folder1, but doesn't see Folder2.

  • If a user has None permission to a folder called Folder1 that contains a form called Form1 to which the user has Write permission, the user can see Folder1 and Form1.