Permissions for User Groups.........

I have created three user groups in the supervisor and i have few Users for each group. I have three categories each contains some reports. I gave permissions to each group of Users can see reports in One or more Categories when he retrieves the documents from the Corporate Doc’s according to his User permissions has been set in the Supervisor. My requirement is when a User logs in say if he has acess to 2 categories then he must see only those 2 categories but not the remaining categories which he dont have access to see. but i didnt find an option to disable the category in the supervisor, he still able to see all the categories but not the reports in those categories which he dont have permission to, i dont want to show him the Empty category either, could some one help me to resolve this.

Thanks in advance.


Basha (BOB member since 2004-05-25)

Hi, Basha. If you do a Search using keywords report categories restrict, you’ll find that, like you, others have asked about restricting categories in Supervisor – and that categories have nothing to do with permissions / rights / whatever in Supervisor.

So, unfortunately, there’s no easy way (that I know of) to do what you ask.


Anita Craig :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-17)

Thanks Anita, but i guess somethinf should be there atleast as an alternative, have to figure it out… anyways thanks again.


Basha (BOB member since 2004-05-25)

Basha, I am not sure sure how many reports you are talking about but if we disable all the reports associated to a given category that user will not see that category in which he/she does not have access to reports in. If you are seeing something differenet I’m not sure that is typical behavior.


jswoboda :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-20)

When i disable all the reports in that particular catregory, still he can see the Empty Catergory, i dont want to show him the Empty category even…

Thanks Jeffrey


Basha (BOB member since 2004-05-25)