Enabling a Guest User

BI Publisher allows you configure public access to specific reports by defining a "Guest" folder. Any user can access the reports in this folder without entering credentials.

Note:

Guest access is not supported when BI Publisher uses a shared catalog or is installed with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Guest access is not supported with Single Sign-On.

All objects that are required to view a report must be present in the Guest folder because the Guest folder is the only folder the guest user has any access rights to. Therefore the report and the data model must be present in the Guest folder and Sub Templates and Style Templates, if applicable. The guest user must have read access only.

The Guest user must also be granted access to the report data source.

To enable guest access:

1. Under Shared Folders, create the folder to which you want to grant public access.
2. Click Administration.
3. Under Security Center, select Security Configuration.
4. Under Guest Access, select Allow Guest Access.
5. Enter the name of the folder that you created for public access, as shown below.
   
   

   
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6. Restart the BI Publisher application.
7. Add the objects to the Guest folder that the guest users can access: folders, reports, data models, Sub Templates and Style Templates.

   Note:

   The report must reference the data model that is stored in the guest folder. Therefore, if you copy a report with its data model from another location, then ensure that you open the report and reselect the data model so that the report references the data model inside the guest folder.

   Similarly, any references to Sub Templates or Style Templates must also be updated.

8. Grant access to the data sources used by data models in your Guest folder. See Setting Up Data Sources for information on granting Guest access to a data source.

Users who access BI Publisher see the Guest button on the log on page. Users can click this button and view the reports in your chosen guest folder without presenting credentials.