Hi,
Is there someway to restrict certain information to specific users?
I work for a bank and we have one database with complete information. Now, we want users to have access to data that is specific to them like user X should just see information related to current accounts and user Y should just have access to savings account. We have a flag on one of the tables to determine what product it is. Is this something that could be done on Business Objects? We are using 5.1
To get suggestions that pertain to your specific case – please tell us how many users you have, and what is the range of restrictions you need. If you have an extremely simple case, you might be able to do it with a couple of cases of row-level restrictions on the universe, imposed in Supervisor.
If your situation is very complex, and is not quantifiable by some sort of grouping – you might need to have a “security” table that you use in the process of figuring out the row-level restrictions for a user.
We have 100 users and I have around 20 tables that have to be restricted. I don’t know if we could do a straight forward restriction at the supervisor level as not every table has a field that determines the access rights. This flag is available in just one of these tables , does it mean I have to join any report back to this table to carryout our filtering? If so how do i do it? supervisor row level restriction wouldn’t alllow me to make joins(writing subqueries had performance issues).
Again it is the same question about using a security table. Do I have to join each of these 20 tables to this security table?
I don’t have a clear enough picture to give advice. If you were trying to impose the limitation in straight SQL for various possible ad-hoc queries, what would you do? That will give you a clue about what you’re going to have to make work in the universe.
B
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