Understanding BI Publisher Users, Roles, and Permissions

A user is assigned one or multiple roles.

A role can grant any or all of the following:

• Privileges to use functionality

• Permissions to perform actions on catalog objects

• Access to data sources

You can create a hierarchy of roles by assigning roles to other roles. In this way the privileges and permissions of multiple roles can roll up to higher level roles. The figure below shows an example of the hierarchy structure of User, Role, and Folder.

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Options for Configuring Users and Roles

There are three options for setting up users and roles.

• Set up users and roles in the BI Publisher Security Center

  For this option, follow the instructions in this section.

• Configure BI Publisher with your LDAP server

  For this option, see Configuring BI Publisher to Use an LDAP Provider for Authentication and Authorization.

• Set up users and roles in a supported Oracle security model. For this option, see Integrating with Other Oracle Security Models.