Our department has a number of power users who would like to have the ability to use Designer to create their own universes off of access databases etc. We also have a production universe which we would like these power users to be able to query through the Reporter module. The problem is that we don’t want these power users to be able to alter this production universe through their access to Designer. It seems like it is possible for these users to alter their local copy of the universe, and the reporter module will not refresh the universe with the correct version from the repository (the universe in the repository is locked) unless the universe designer makes an incremental export of the universe. In other words it doesn’t look like Business Objects uses the file time stamp to determine that the local copy of the universe and the copy up in the repository are out of sync.
We know that you can disable a universe all together for a specific user, but these users would still need to be able to query the database using this universe. Is there a way to give read only type access to specific universes for specific users through Supervisor? We would like to avoid a solution that requires dual ID’s for each power user.
When you import the universe, you can LOCK it. Then only the person that locked it can export it again. In order for people to modify the universe, they will have to SAVEAS a copy of it.
We know that you can disable a universe all together for a specific user, but
these users would still need to be able to query the database using this
universe. Is there a way to give read only type access to specific universes
for specific users through Supervisor? We would like to avoid a solution that
requires dual ID’s for each power user.
Yes it is possible, as long as you’re smart in setting up your usergroups,
because a user can have different roles in different groups.
Say you make a group “Production”, in this group you are the designers,
and your power users are just normal users. Export the universe only
to this group.
Now set up a group “Own stuff”, copy the power users from the production group to this group and change the profile to designer.
The power users are “normal” users for the production universe, and cannot access it as designers, whereas as “own stuff” users they
are designers and can create universe on whatever database they like.
They could even be working in different domains in this group so you
keep the production domains clean.