BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Using inheritance to your advantage

In regards to object rights, BusinessObjects Enterprise recognizes two types of inheritance: group inheritance and folder inheritance. By taking advantage of the ways in which object rights are inherited, you can reduce the amount of time it takes to secure the content that you have published to BusinessObjects Enterprise. Additionally, you can set up BusinessObjects Enterprise such that you can integrate new users and new content quickly and easily.

To facilitate administration, it is recommended that you enable and disable inheritance with access levels whenever possible (instead of with advanced rights). Additionally, it is recommended that you make your initial settings at the top-level BusinessObjects Enterprise folder and disable inheritance only when necessary. For detailed tutorials that walk you through sample implementations of object rights, see Customizing a 'top-down' inheritance model.

Tip:    By default, users or groups who have rights to a folder will inherit the same rights for any object that you subsequently publish to that folder. Consequently, the best strategy is to set the appropriate rights for users and groups at the folder level first. Then publish objects to that folder.

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• Group and folder inheritance
• Enabling and disabling inheritance with access levels
• Inheritance with advanced rights