Restrict member access in POV member selection

Hello all,
I wonder if there is a way to restrict access to certain members in Smart View's POV manager (member selection tool)? For example if a user is assigned a filter in Essbase that restricts his access to an Entity "A", he should not be able to see/select that entity in the member selection in Smart View.
I did some research and browsed the guides but could not find anything related to this special requirement.
Highly appreciate any thoughts.
Thanks for your help and time.

I have implemented MetaRead as the "standard" for users with read only access at several clients, as most people prefer to see only what they have access to. A good example is European users, don't need to see Asian countries in their geography rollup and vice versa.
It also makes training easier as you don't have to deal with the questions, why can I see Germany/Thailand if I can't see any data.
I suggested FR as an option as once the user has chosen their POV for the first time, it will follow them whenever they open a subsequent report, so they don't have to worry about choosing it.
Although you do lose some ad-hoc abilities with FR - that you can mitigate through the use of expansion on rows/columns. Also the POV is per data source, so if you wished to migrate to new cube for a new financial year, then the POV would need to be chosen again.
The other advantage with FR is you can distribute the same report and have many users, with differing access see different data through their POV and access rights. With Smart View, users would need to chose their POV every time they opened a newly distributed report.
Hope this helps - let me know if you have further questions/thoughts.
Cheers, Iain

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