User Security & Privileges

User Security & Privileges

In certain deployments where access to BI reporting is granted through secondary user access to Discoverer Viewer in addition to Workbench Reporting, Discoverer Administrator is also used to maintain user security and privileges for reporting.  To access this canvas from the Discoverer Administrator tool, select Tools> Security.  Within this screen, administrators can define access to Business Areas by User or by Role.  Access to Business Areas means that an end user can execute reports that pull data from the Business Areas to which they have access.

Administrators can also select Tools> Privileges, to restrict the actions available to an end user when the user accesses Discoverer Viewer to run reports.

To reiterate, the configuration of end user security and privileges in Discoverer Administrator is not required for deployments using the standard approach of the Khameleon Workbench as the sole means of reporting distribution.