General Permissions

The Access Menu and Full POV permission indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to access the reports in the menu with the appurtenant POV. Giving this permission bypasses the Light User. Only Regular Users can access the menu and full POV.

Designer Permissions

The Designer Permission indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able access the CXO-Designer or Source System manager. Refer Admin for more details.

Draft Data

These set of permissions indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to view Draft Data. Refer How to use - Draft period data.

• View Draft Period Data - Ability to view, and select in the report's Point of View, data from the period marked as Draft
• View Data Beyond Draft Period - Ability to view, and select in the report's Point of View, data from periods after the Draft Period

Comments

These set of permissions indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to Edit, Lock, Unlock Comments and View Comments History.

• View Comments History - Ability to read comments & narratives (Applies to everyone who is allowed to view the data)
• Edit Comments - Ability to edit comments & narratives
• Lock Comments - Ability to lock comments & narratives (No more editing allowed)
• Unlock Comments - Ability to unlock comments & narratives (Usually only the Administrator or the process owner is allowed to unlock)

Data Warehouse Adapter

These set of permissions indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to Edit Data Warehouse Data and Metadata.

• Edit Data Warehouse Data - Ability to edit data, save them and process it towards the OLAP cube
• Edit Data Warehouse Metadata - Ability to maintain and create Metadata and process it towards the OLAP cube

Workflows

These following set of permissions decide whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to:

• Access workflows: Only if a user has this permission enabled will they be able access workflow tab
• Create workflows: When this option is enabled for a user, the +New tab to create a new workflow becomes available for the user
• Edit workflows: When this option is enabled, the user can edit the template or the instance of the workflow. Edit workflow permission allows the user to make changes to the owner and/or due date for a step of the workflow.
• Full control over all instances: Admin with this option enabled has full control over the workflow functionality. It also allows the user to mark a step as done even if the step is not assigned to them.

Other Permissions

The Access Mobile Version permission indicates whether the user or users belonging to a specific group will be able to login in through the CXO mobile app.

The Edit MDX permission indicates whether the user having Report Builder rights will be able to write MDX statements via linked cube calcs or linked MDX lists.

Permissions inheritance

Each user or user group can be member of one or more user groups. This can be set through the Main Tab inside Create New User / New User Group or Edit User / Edit User Group popup.

• When a user or user group is member of a user group, they will inherit all permissions from it (Permissions, Point of View Security Filters or Report Permissions).
• When a user or user group is member of more user group, they will get the sum of all permissions from all the user groups are a member of.
• In addition to the permissions inherited from the user group a user or user group are a member of, additional permissions can be set for the specific user / user group. 
• The inheritance hierarchy can be as deep as needed, that is, it is possible to create basic user groups with permissions to be applied to most users (e.g. 'basic group') and then have additional user groups with more advanced permissions (e.g. 'group 1') who are member of the 'basic group', and then more complex user groups (e.g. 'group 2') who are member of 'group 1' and so on. User members of 'group 2' will inherit permission both set for 'basic group' and for 'group 1'.

Permissions inheritance allows to optimize the maintenance of users and user groups.

Inherited permissions cannot be removed. When creating or editing a user or user group, inherited permissions will appear in the popup as selected and disabled, while permission set for the single user or user group will appear selected but enabled.
Unselecting the option Show inherited permissions, only permissions set for the specific user or user group will appear.

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Duplicated Permission

When a permission is both inherited and set for the current user or user group a symbol  will appear close to the permission. It is suggested to remove duplicated permission to avoid potential problems for a scenario like:

• A user is given Report Admin permission
• In future, when more Admin users are needed, a user group Report Admin is created (with Report Admin permission) and the user is set as member of the group.
• After a period for any reason, the Admin wants to remove the Report Admin permission from the user. The user loses the permissions that were part of that group but retains the permissions assigned directly to the user.
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To remove duplicated permissions:

1. Unselect Show inherited permissions option to view permission set for the current user or user group
2. Unselect the duplicated permission
3. Select Show inherited permissions option, the duplicated symbol will not appear anymore
4. Click Save