BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Enabling and disabling inheritance with access levels

With access levels, you can enable or disable group inheritance, folder inheritance, or both. You can alternatively enable one or both types of inheritance with Advanced rights settings. For details, see Inheritance with advanced rights.

To enable inheritance with an access level

1. Go to the Objects or Folders management area of the CMC.
2. Locate the object whose rights you want to modify.
3. Click the link to the object, and then click its Rights tab.
4. In the Name column, locate the user or group whose rights you want to specify.

If the user or group is not listed, click Add/Remove. Add the appropriate user or group and click OK. You are returned to the object's Rights tab.

5. In the Access Level column, select Inherited Rights for the user or group.
6. Click Update.

The Net Access column now displays the effective rights that the user or group has inherited for this object.

Note:    If the entry displayed in the Net Access column is Advanced, ensure that both types of inheritance are enabled in the parent folder's advanced rights settings. For details, see Setting advanced object rights.

To disable inheritance with an access level

Note:    This procedure disables group and folder inheritance for a user account. When applied to a group, this procedure does not prevent group members from inheriting rights by virtue of membership in other groups.

1. Go to the Objects or Folders management area of the CMC.
2. Locate the object whose rights you want to modify.
3. Click the link to the object, and then click its Rights tab.
4. In the Name column, locate the user whose rights you want to specify.

If the user is not listed, click Add/Remove. Add the appropriate user and click OK. You are returned to the object's Rights tab.

5. In the Access Level column, select the access level (No Access, View, Schedule, View On Demand, or Full Control) that is appropriate for the user.
6. Click Update.

The Net Access column now displays the effective rights that the user has to the object. Because you have disabled all inheritance, the Net Access entry equals the Access Level entry.