Profiles are used in conjunction with publications to personalize the content that users see when Desktop Intelligence documents are published using single
Using profiles, you can schedule a publication (based on a Desktop Intelligence document) once, and deliver many different personalized versions of the report to your users (known as single
For example, you could use a profile to associate regional class information with users and groups, or you could combine the regional information with a profile that provides details about the user's status within the company.
To use a profile in the Publisher, you need to decide what level of personalization you need and then create the profile in the Central Management Console and assign it to users and groups. When you schedule and distribute personalized documents through publications, the profile will control what information your users see. For more information about the Publisher, see the BusinessObjects Publisher guide.
Note: Profiles do not control users' access to data. Profiles are used to refine a document's content, or filter it. When you use profiles to display a subset of the data to a user, it is not the same as restricting the user from seeing that data. If users have the appropriate rights, they can still see the complete data for the document by viewing the instance in the InfoView. Profiles filter the view of the data; they do not change or secure the data being queried from the data source. For information about controlling user access, see "Controlling User Access" on page 309.
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