Access Files and Artifacts

Your access to the Files catalog in Essbase depends on your user role and application-level permissions.

You can access the Files catalog from Cube Designer or from the Essbase web interface.

If your user role in Essbase is User with no application permissions, you can access the shared, users, and gallery folders. The applications folder is empty.

The gallery folder is read-only for all users.

The shared folder is read-write for all users.

Within the users folder, users have read-write access to their own folders, and the service administrator has access to all.

If your role is User and you have Database Access or Database Update permission for a particular application, you can additionally view (and download from) the appropriate subdirectories beneath the applications folder. These subdirectories contain files and artifacts for applications and cubes you can access.

If your role is User and you have Database Manager permission for an application, you can additionally upload files and artifacts to the cube directory, as well as delete, copy, and rename them.

If your role is User and you have Application Manager permission for an application, you can do everything with files that the Database Manager can do, and your access is expanded to the application directory in addition to the cube directory.

If you are a Power User, you have the same access to files and artifacts that an Application Manager has, for applications you created. Your access to other applications is restricted according to the application permission you have been granted.

A service administrator has full access to all files and directories (except the gallery folder, which is read-only).