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Author's profile photo Manikandan Elumalai

BusinessObjects Administration – Setting up security model – Part III

In our previous blogs we have analyzed various components required for Designing security model such as List of available rights, possible user categories and finally the Security models. Before taking deep dive in to each model we need to organize BusinessObjects content at below levels

  • Reporting folders
  • Universe folders
  • User hierarchy

 You can have a look at below articles to know more about organizing contents (Content Management Plan)

BusinessObjects Administration – Content Management Procedure

BusinessObjects Administration – Content Management Plan

And the next step would be identifying required rights for each user category. You should make use of Custom Access Levels for each user category.  Refer my external blog here to understand about Custom access levels

http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-objects-boogle/businessobjects-administration-custom-access-levels/

Based on the requirement create list of rights necessary for each user category.  Consolidated list of all the rights and a custom access level grouping for admin group is depicted below.

BI 4.x Master rights

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Delegated Administrators Access level

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I also attached prototype of the document with this blog.  Since .xls doesn’t supported, I have exported it to .txt format . Make use of it if you want to utilize it to your requirement. Thanks for reading once again.

Related blogs

BusinessObjects Administration – Setting up security model – An easy way to configure and manage

BusinessObjects Administration – Setting up security model – Part II

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Good blog Mani. This series of blogs really help administrators/architect to come out with a processed security model during Upgrade projects.

      Author's profile photo Henrik Englesson
      Henrik Englesson

      Your blogs is really good Mani! Keep on, and you will make the BO-world be better!

      Is there a way to get the rights-setting for every tiny setting, for everyaccess-role, in a excel/separeted format?

      (Collection, Type, Right name, Status, Apply to)

      What I want to do is to create custom access levels starting from the standardsettings and add or remove specific rights.

      And, is there anywhere a description of what every tiny setting actually mean? Today I use to test and see what happens, but its not very efficient. Some of the setting is a bit cryptical described.

      /Henrik

      Author's profile photo Manikandan Elumalai
      Manikandan Elumalai
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Henrik. By the way I couldn't see your email id anywhere in your profile.

      Author's profile photo Henrik Englesson
      Henrik Englesson

      Hi,

      Thats strange Mani.

      My email is in the profile as I can see (henrik.englesson@posten.se).

      Best regards,

      Henrik

      Author's profile photo S man
      S man

      Hi Mani,

      Is there any way where we can export our current security level to excel file??

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Very informative blog. I was configuring security settings for webi features and this blog helped. I was wondering if I get detailed information about the security options.

      Thanks,

      Kevin

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Mani,

      could I ask you to send me file xls with the rights-setting for every tiny setting, for everyaccess-role?  Email: pokornyjan@seznam.cz

      Thank you for help

      Jan

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Great blog Mani,

      Can you email me (rkotha.sapbi@gmail.com) the excel/.txt for the other tabs, I would like to know what they have so I can use for my requirement

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      Thanks in advance,

      Kris

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Mani, Very good guide thanks!
      Is possible to have the excel or txt template ? (feder.sitsky@gmail.com)
      Many thanks,

      Feder

      Author's profile photo Michael Welch
      Michael Welch

      Hi Mani,
      Could I also get a copy of the spradesheet or text file?
      My email is michael<dot>welch<at>canada<dot>ca

      Many thanks again for your content here.

      Author's profile photo TCS Team
      TCS Team

       

      Hi Mani,
      Could I also get a copy of the spradesheet or text file?
      My email is memorable.frnd@gmail.com

      Many thanks again for your content here.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Mani,

      This is a very good guide thanks!
      Is possible to have the excel or txt template ? (jcsy_chan@yahoo.com)

      Many thanks,

      JC

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Mani,
      Could you send me a copy of the spradesheet?
      My email is kolsasha@gmail.com
      Thank you very much

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Mani,

      Very useful guide! Thank you.

      I will be glad if you can send me a copy of spradesheet.

      ysmnbkn@gmail.com

      Thanks in advance

      Yasemin

      Author's profile photo Ranjith Kumar Cherukuri
      Ranjith Kumar Cherukuri

      Hello Mani,

      Can you please share Excel sheet, Tomy mail id cheruran@gmail.com

      Thanks,

      Ranjith

      Author's profile photo Manikandan Elumalai
      Manikandan Elumalai
      Blog Post Author

      This is a pretty old blog and the custom access levels that I created might not be appropriate.  However Dwayne Hoffpauir's great document below should give you a right direction.

      http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?t=229912

       

      Thanks

      Mani

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hey..

       

      Amazing blog.. We are currently in the phase of setting up BOBJ in our system. Very informative document. Can you please send the excel format of the spreadsheet to gunjan.benjamin@gmail.com.

      Will be a great help..

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Mani,

      Could you please send me the template document to gkperuru@gmail.com

      It will be of great help to me dear.

      Thanks in advance

       

      Author's profile photo Vincent Cheah
      Vincent Cheah

      Thanks Mani for sharing

      Could you please share the xls template to vincentcheah_is@hotmail.com?

      Regards

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Great blog series - thanks for posting.

      Could I too get a copy of your CALs xls emailed over? I have produced my own list and would like to compare <rebecca.ameson@gmail.com>

       

      KRs

      Author's profile photo Carlos Bonilla
      Carlos Bonilla

      Good Blog Excellent,

       

      could you send me a copy of the Excel file ?  Email me at: cbonilla@cibernetica.net

       

      Regards and thanks in advance

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Great Read,

      Mani could you please send me a excel copy as well?

       

      andrebellamy92@gmail.com

       

      Thanks in Advance!

      Author's profile photo Manikandan Elumalai
      Manikandan Elumalai
      Blog Post Author

      This is a pretty old blog and the custom access levels that I created might not be appropriate.  However Dwayne Hoffpauir’s great document below should give you a right direction.

      http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?t=229912

       

      Author's profile photo Mohd Fahad
      Mohd Fahad

      Hi Mani,

      Great blog well organized and very informative. Im setting up security roles and your blog is a great help to streamline nature of role.

      I would highly appreciate if its possible for you to share detail level spreadsheet with me at mohdfahad00@gmail.com

      Thanks for great post keep it up.

       

      Regards,

      Fahad

      Author's profile photo Ame Eersel
      Ame Eersel

      As new BO users the info jumpstarted  me in making a template. Any additional information is always welcome.

      Author's profile photo Rich Chandler
      Rich Chandler

       

      Excellent Blog Mani.  Could you please send me the excel copy as well?  Please send to rich.chandler@novachem.com.

      Thanks!

      Author's profile photo Mohammed Taher
      Mohammed Taher

      Good Blog. Could you please send me the excel copy to taheresani@gmail.com

      Author's profile photo Paula Damp
      Paula Damp

      Great blog!  Could you please send me the excel copy at paula_d2@yahoo.com?

      Thanks!

      Author's profile photo Christian Kinne
      Christian Kinne

      Hi Manikandan,

      very helpful blog, Could you please send me the excel copy at christian.kinne@springernature.com ?

       

      Many thanks,

      Christian

       

      Author's profile photo Venkata Yerasi
      Venkata Yerasi

      Great blog!  Could you please send me the excel copy at 246835@gmail.com?

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Chandra Allu
      Chandra Allu

      Hi Mani, Very good and informative blog. Can you please provide me the excel sheet which contains other teeny tiny details of all the roles, accesses, and security options so that we can create our own custom access levels? I couldn't find the document/blog by Dwayne Hoffpauir as the BOB discussion board is moved. Please provide any updated document if you have created any. cyberdude22au@yahoo.com

       

      Thanks in advance

      Author's profile photo AINOUSS Abdelali
      AINOUSS Abdelali

      Dear Manikandan Elumalai

      can you please provide me the excel,

       

      BR