Rights on shortcut reports

[lyanch]

For CE 8.0 with fairly current patches.

I ran into an interesting situation last week. I have one report that is run by several different groups with different parameters available. I have two groups that use the report with the same paramters. The second group can't use any of the normal first groups reports and vis versa, so I decided to make a shortcut and include the report in the second groups main folders. When you create a copy in the CMC you get a "rights" tab (I wish you got a parameters tab too, but thats another story). I removed the first group, and added the second group on the copy. I went in eportfolio as an admin, and yes the report was there and it ran fine.

Then I went in as a user of the second group. The report showed up normally. However, when the user selected that report to run.. NOTHING showed up in the "view type" box next to the go button. So, the users could see the report, but not actually run it in any format.

The solution to the problem was to add the second group on the rights tab in the original report. Apparantly the rights tab on the copy only allows you to remove rights, not grant new groups/users permissions on the report. This seems flawed to me..

Does anyone know if this is the way it works for 8.5?

Lisa

 

[synapsevampire]

Sorry, Lisa, I can't help much because I'm waiting for CE 8.5 to be delivered, so I can only respond with CE 8 today, tomorrow I should have CE 8.5

I tested with CE 8.0 Standard and I can add rights to either a copied report or a shortcut. I also have the parms tab for copied files, but NOT for shortcuts, which is to be expected.

You started writing about shortcuts, and then use the term Copy, so I'm not certain which you mean.

A shortcut doesn't have parms because it's just a link to a report.

A copy has that type of attribute because it's a unique physical copy (at least in theory).

-k

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kai@informeddatadecisions.com

 

[lyanch]

The shortcuts also have a rights tab... which would tend to make one assume that one can change rights on a shortcut.

Sorry for the confusion, my problem was with shortcuts.

Lisa