Click on one of the applications on the list and display the single application. Most of the information is system-generated and read-only.

Users and Groups should be assigned to Application Roles within the application in order to gain access to the environment.

Click the Application Roles link and review available Application Roles.

While the application represents a single environment, the different Application Roles represent different components within the environment. In order to authorize user's access to a certain component the user has to be assigned to a corresponding Application Role. Application Roles include:

Application Roles also used to support coarse-grained authorization in the target component, for example the BI Content Author versus an ordinary BI Consumer.