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[gav12345]

Hi,

Using CE10 and BOEXI. Our user/group rights structure is currently quite straightforward, in that most users / groups have some sort of access to most report-containing folders. However, we have changes coming up that mean it's about to get a lot more complex.

Does anyone know of a tool out there that will display (or manage) the current structure of user and group rights, in a concise, easy to manage way?

Thanks for any info.

Gavin

 

[PatBITK]

Hi,

For XI only, you can display your security with a free tool called the Security Viewer.

Search for it at support.businessobjects.com

Not life saving since you can't modify anything but that should answer your question.

Otherwise APOS (Techology partners) has tools to help but not free. Also

http://www.gbandsmith.com/index.html

with their 360 tool could help.

Hope it helps...

Business Objects Consultant and Trainer
BOCP - BOE and CR & Official Migration Specialist

BI Toolkit - Offices in UK and Holland

http://www.bitoolkit.com

 

[gav12345]

Thanks PatBITK. That looks great but alas we're still living in the BOE XI R1 dark ages....and the Security Viewer is apparently only for use with R2 (unless you know otherwise?).
I'll check out the APOS / 360 tool but I suspect that the money aspect may be a problem.
- Thanks for your help in any case.

Gavin

 

[needhelpoften]

We are under the SOX gun and I need to know how to effectively restrict crystal developers from accessing production crystal data. With out stopping them from doing there jobs. SOX require that the developer of the crystal report can not place this report into production. They want an Integrator to perform this function ONLY. What could be a plausible solution using 3 server’s one production one testing and one for core development? I would like to prevent the developers from accessing Production. The integrators would stage the changes to production. Please help!!!!!

Thanks in advance
David

 

[gav12345]

Hi David,

You're much better posting your question as a new thread. New questions on the ends of existing threads generally don't get answered.

I'm afraid I can't suggest a solution in any case. I'm not sure how you'd stop a developer placing a report onto a production server since you can do this directly from within the Crystal designer. It seems an odd requirement - the fact that the developer is saving the report to the production server doesn't mean that they can see production data.

Gavin

 

[hilfy]

Don't give the developers access to Production. When you set up security in your production environment, either don't give them access to it at all or don't give them the rights to publish or modify files.

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.

 

[PatBITK]

Hi David,

Yeah SOX can be a pain but just like Hilfy said, I think not giving permission to the developers is a safe thing to do so effectively they are "standard users" in that environment.

Now, after they have done their job in the Dev environment, you need that integrator to copy the report over.

There are different ways to achieve this. The out of the box solution is to use the Import Wizard.

There are 3rd party tools to make this less painful like Instance Analyzer (

http://www.zoom-software.com).

The first purpose of that tool is to manage schedules and instances but it can also copy reports between environment with a simple drag and drop. Nicely done, have a look at their free eval.

Sorry for the late reply. Hope it helps,

Pat



Business Objects Consultant and Trainer
BOCP - BOE and CR & Official Migration Specialist

BI Toolkit - Offices in UK and Holland

http://www.bitoolkit.com