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General Permissions
The "Access Mobile Version" permission indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to access the mobile version.
Comments
This set of permisssions indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to Edit, Lock, Unlock Comments and View Comments History.
Draft Data
This set of permissions indicates whether he user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to view Draft Period Data or View Data Beyond Draft Period.
Data Warehouse Adapter
This set of permissions indicates whether he user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to Edit Data Wharehouse Data and Metadata.
Report Builder
The Report Builder can build reports by reusing global (public) objects or creating his own private objects. Report Builders can build new reports or edit the reports they have created themselves.
These are the steps to create a User with the Report Builder role:
1. Create a User Group with the Report Builder role
2. Create a User and assign it to the Report Builder User Group
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The User can be created to have Report Buildet Permission or be set as member of User Group that has Report Builder permisiions.
Report Builder Role Specifics
This is how the Design Studio looks for Report Builder:
SCREEN with user: User1
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pass: 654321
The following menus, which are present for Administrators, are hidden from
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Report Builder:
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- Users
- Menu items
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- Application Settings
The following Shared Objects are available, but the resulting grids are Read-Only:
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- Only list of avaliable Cube calculations and their details are present
- View Lists -
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- Only a list with Shared lists
- View Formats -
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- List of Formats and their details
- View Variables -
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- List of Variables nad their Details
- View Palettes -
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The Panel on the left side shows ‘My Report’/’Reports by Menu’/’Reports by Template’ instead of ‘Reports by Menu’/’Reports by Template’.
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- List and Details
- View Narrative Templates - List and Details
Report Builder can view already published reports
When Report Builder views the reports, created by other users (published reports), he cannot modify them.
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Report Settigs tabs are displayed in read-only mode. In the same way he cannot modify the lists and the formats, used for such reports
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Report Builder can build reports using existing lists or creating linked lists
When Report Builder decides to build a report by using the existing (
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Shared) lists, these lists will appear as read-only in the
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Content Panel. Repport Settings become available for modifications.
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this Report Content Settings, Report Builder has the possibility to
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After creating the copies of the required lists, he can apply them in this report by choosing them from the report lists fields. The lists, which belong to Report Builder will be marked with ‘<<’
Another way to create a private list is to use Create Report menu in the Ribbon and select Create a New List there:
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create Report list which will be used for this report only.
Report Builder can create Drill-lists and Formats
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Report List, linked to his Report, Report Builder can create specific
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Linked List (created for the drill-down from a member of that list) and Formats.
There are 2 additional buttons in the bottom of List Panel:
- Maintain Drill Lists – functions in the same way as Maintain List grid in the Ribbon, only showing the Drill lists for the current Main List. This button enables Copying Public Lists / Copy any other linked List;
- Maintain Formats – functions in the same way as Maintain Formats in the ribbon, but filtered, also adds the ability to copy public Formats and other linked Formats;
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Create a Linked List
Maintain List Formats
Report Builder can reuse his own previously created lists
Report Builder can reuse his own previously created lists
When Report Builder creates a copy of his own report lists (but not drill lists), this list will be copied together with all drill lists linked to it. To make the drill list be used in several reports Report Builder should create it on report level first and then copy it in any report he wants.
How Administrator can promote reports
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Open Report Panel, Administrator has
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4 tabs: Unpublished Reports, Reports by Menu, Reports by Template and Recent Reports. Unpublished Reports section includes the reports, which were created but not published yet. These reports are sorted by the user names, who created the reports.
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To publish a report Administrator needs to place it in the menu
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by selecting the report and clicking on the gaer that will appear.
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Once the report is published by the Admninistrator, the Report Builder cannot edit it anymore. If after publishing the report the Administrator decides
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whether Report Builder will be able to
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see the report
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How Administrator can promote report lists and drill lists
Administrator can make a private report list public by using "Copy to Shared Lists" button in the report list:
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