Question
Cognizant Technology Solutions
US
Last activity: 28 Mar 2016 12:53 EDT
Can we control the "write" access for reports in Public categories?
Is there an OOTB way to control who can create/modify reports in a public category? We have a requirement that a location specific public category should be maintained and only the site admin should be able to create/modify reports in the category. Any pointers to achieve this requirement in an OOTB way or with a little customization are well appreciated.
Message was edited by: Lochan to add Category
Hi Ravikanth,
I interpret the 'location' in your requirement "We have a requirement that a location specific public category should be maintained" as - you may have a Category ABC that would be public to a place/location/region X but not visible to a place/location Y. Please clarify if my understanding is wrong.
The pyOOTBVisibleInBrowser WHEN rule controls the visibility of the category on the report browser. This is an available rule, so if my interpretation above is right, then we could circumstance this WHEN rule as per your location property X, Y, etc. and that way control the visibility of the Category ABC.
Does this help you at all in your requirement?
Thanks,
Sunny
Hi Ravikanth,
Do you want the site admin to have write access to the category, and others at the site to have read access (i.e., be able to run reports from the category but not add, delete or modify)?
I'm not aware of any straightforward way to do that. The only thing I can find is from the help page for the Category rule:
It doesn't say anything about being able to grant separate read or write access. Please confirm what your requirement is, and we can check with subject matter experts.
Thanks,
Ron