Integrate with Oracle Database Security
Publisher offers integration with Oracle Database security to enable you to administer the Publisher users with your Oracle Database users.
Follow these procedures to integrate Publisher with Oracle E-Business Suite:
Note:
For information on setting up Oracle Database security, see Oracle Database Security Guide.
When you restart the server, the roles to whichPublisher roles have been assigned are visible as roles in the Publisher security center.
Define the Publisher Functional Roles in the Oracle Database
You can create roles in the Oracle database that correspond to Publisher functional roles.
Add Data Sources to Roles
To view a report generated from a particular data source, a report consumer's role must be granted access to the data source.
Similarly, to create a data model based on a particular data source, the report author's role must be granted access to the data source.
- On the Administration tab, under Security Configuration, click Roles and Permissions.
- Find the role to which you want to add data sources and click Add Data Sources. The Add Data Sources page is displayed.
- Locate the appropriate data sources in the Available Data Sources list and use the shuttle buttons to move the sources to the Allowed Data Sources list for the role.
- Click Apply.
- Repeat for all roles that need access to report data sources.
Grant Catalog Permissions to Roles
For a role to access objects in a folder, you must grant the role permissions to the catalog object.
You can grant permissions at the folder level, so that a role has the same access to every object in a folder, or you can assign access individually to each object in a folder.
- In the catalog, navigate to a catalog object that's required for a role.
- Click the More link for the object and then click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog.
- Click the Create icon to open the Add Roles dialog.
- Click Search to populate the list of Available Roles.
- Use the Move button to move the appropriate roles from the Available Roles list to the Selected Roles list.
- Click OK.
- Enable the appropriate permissions for the role by selecting the check boxes.
- To apply the selections to all items within a folder, select Apply permissions to items within this folder.