Link or display Dokuments in the Dashboard (pdf, jpg, etc.)

Hi together,
we would like to store documents which should be displayed or linked in Oracle BI Dashboard.
What's the best place to store such documents. We tried to store the documents below oracle/product/OracleBI/web/app/res.
It works, but in this case there is no security and everybody who knows the linke is able to display these documents.
And where do you store such documents?
Regards,
Stefan Hess
Oracle BI 10g
Edited by: stefanhess on Jun 20, 2011 4:21 PM

Hi stefanhess,
In any folder people will be able to access the documents if they know where they are. In this case, you put the documents in an oracle path, which for sure is in a server with security. When you place this in a dashboard, the dashboad itself is protected with user/password credential. So the security is at the user level, not at the document level.
If you want to have security at the pdf level, you should protect the pdf with a password (this is a pdf funcionality, not obiee).
J

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