BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Specifying profile rights

You can grant or deny users and groups access to profiles. Depending how you organize your profiles, you may have specific profiles that you want to be available only for certain employees or departments.

Users with access to the Central Management Console will only be able to see profiles they have the rights to see, so you can use rights to hide profiles that aren't applicable to a particular group. For example, by granting only the ITadmin group access to IT-related profiles, those profiles won't appear for a user from the HRadmin group; this makes the profile list easier for the HRadmin group to navigate.

Follow this procedure to change the rights for a profile. By default, rights to profiles are based on current security settings, inheriting rights from the users' parent folders.

To grant access to a profile

1. Go to the Profiles management area of the CMC.
2. Select the profile you want to grant access to.
3. Click the Rights tab.
4. Click Add/Remove to add the groups or users that you want to have access to this profile.

The Add/Remove page appears.

5. In the Select Operation list, select Add/Remove Groups, Add Users, or Remove Users.

The page is refreshed and displays options that depend upon whether you are working with users or with groups.

6. Select the user/group whose rights you want to specify and click the arrows to specify whether the user/group does or does not have access to the profile.
7. Click OK.
8. On the Rights tab, change the Access Level for each user or group, as required.
9. To choose specific rights, choose Advanced.

Note:    For complete details on the predefined access levels and advanced rights, see the "Rights and Access Levels" chapter of the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Reference Guide.

10. Click Update.