BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Setting up an open system of decreasing rights

This tutorial shows how to create an open security model, wherein groups of users are first granted rights to all objects on the system by default. As you add folders and subfolders to the system, you decrease the rights of users and groups, as required, in order to secure particular BusinessObjects Enterprise content.

In this scenario, you are creating folders for several groups within your organization. You have some reports that you want to add to the system immediately. Because some groups plan to add their own reports later, you also need to give some users the ability to add subfolders and to publish reports. These are your security requirements for each folder:

This tutorial consists of the following sections:

For a shorter, less detailed tutorial, see Setting up a closed system of increasing rights.



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