Impromptu Catalogs

[monsky]

Is there a way to change an Impromptu Catalog's type (personal, distributed, shared, secured) even after it has been created?

 

[Exie]

Here's an chunk from the manual (hope it helps!):

Change the Catalog Type: Overview

[blue]Description[/blue]
When designing catalogs, it is best to set the catalog type based on users’ reporting needs. For
example, if you’re creating a catalog for users accessing canned reports and who will never
change the reports, create a secured catalog. If you’re creating a catalog for users who want to
add their own custom folders, create a distributed catalog and set up the appropriate user
classes.

If necessary, you can change one catalog type to another by changing certain attributes within
the catalog. For example, if you’ve developed a personal catalog and later want to enable
access by other users, you can change the personal catalog into a shared or distributed catalog.

[blue]Catalog Attributes[/blue]

The following table outlines the default attributes of each catalog type. You can add new user
classes and modify existing ones. Use the descriptions in this table to determine the catalog
type that meets your user's needs:

Personal Has only the Creator user class with full privileges. You can:
• create and edit reports
• edit folders
• add and modify user classes
• create type-in SQL reports

Shared Has a Creator and a User user class.
The Creator user class has full privileges.
The User user class can:
• create and edit reports
• add and modify user classes

Distributed Has a Creator and a User user class.
The Creator user class has full privileges.
The User user class can:
• create and edit reports
• edit folders
• add and modify user classes
Only this type is designated as a Distributed
catalog in the Catalog Properties dialog box.

Secured Has a Creator and a User user class.
The Creator user class has full privileges.
The User user class can view reports, but it
can't create reports, change reports, or make
changes to the catalog.

[blue]Notes[/blue]
• The catalogs you create usually contain a mixture of settings from the previous table. Within
a single catalog, you might create a user class that can only view read-only canned reports.
You can design other user classes that can customize folders to meet their own regional or
departmental reporting needs.

• It is unusual to change a shared, distributed, or secured catalog to a personal catalog. You
can do so only by deleting all user classes other than the Creator user class.

• If you change a personal catalog to any other catalog type, it is likely that it will contain only
the Creator user class (although Personal catalogs can contain multiple user classes). To
grant others access to the catalog, you must add other user classes. By default, Impromptu
adds a user class named User automatically. For more information, see "Create a User
Class" (p. 68).

• If you change a shared, secured, or distributed catalog to another catalog type, you must
change the governor settings for all user classes other than the Creator. For more
information, see "Control Editing of the Catalog Structure" (p. 75) and "Control Creating and
Editing Reports" (p. 76).

• To change a distributed catalog, click the Properties command from the Catalog menu, and
then click or clear the Make this a Distributed Catalog check box. This change is in addition
to any changes required for user classes.

• When you change a distributed catalog into either a shared or a secured catalog, you must
inform the catalog users. Their local copies of the distributed catalog are no longer linked to
a master distributed catalog.

• If you change a shared or secured catalog into a distributed catalog, inform the catalog
users, that they will be prompted to save their own local copy of the catalog.