About Privileges to Use Functionality

BI Publisher provides a set of functional roles to grant access to specific functionality within the application. Assign these roles to users based on their need to perform the associated tasks. These roles cannot be updated or deleted.

The table below shows the privileges granted to each functional role.


Role Privilege

BI Publisher Scheduler

View Export History Schedule

BI Publisher Template Designer

View Export History (public reports only) Enables access to Layout Editor Enables log on from Template Builder

BI Publisher Developer

View Export Schedule History Edit Report Enables access to Layout Editor Enables log on from the Template Builder Enables access to the Data Model Editor

BI Publisher Administrator

Enables the privileges of all other roles Grants access to the Administration page and all administration tasks


Roles assigned these privileges cannot perform any actions on objects in the catalog until they are also granted permissions on the catalog objects.