Discoverer Administration

Hi,
I am hoping someone can offer some advice on the ongoing administration of Discoverer for out end users. Got two seperate issues but both generally relate to the sys admin aspect of Disco.
In my organisation we use Disco 10g the latest version and we allow users through the viewer application to manipulate and save their own versions of the worksheets using the save command. This unfortunately has resulted in a number of users mis-saving and needing items removing. Using Disco plus I can look and amend my saved report list but no one else - does anyone know how I can gain the ability to view other users saved worklists and maintain via Plus?
The second element to my query is again the same core matter as above, in that I need to be able to view other peoples workbook list and set sharing rights so 1 user in the business can request a customised report created in viewer to be avilable to other team members. Again, I am thinking this should be possible in Plus but cannot find out how to make this active.
Please forum people you are my last hope as I cannot get any sensible advice from anyone in my workplace appart from asking me to write a work package for my change of access - but how can I do this when I dont know what I need?!?
Any advice on best practice of managing these two aspects of disco would be much appreciated.
Many thanks

Hi,
In general I'd recommend to deploy shared reports under a generic user or users - that way you have the ability to login and change the reports and then re-deploy. Also it means they are centrally located and all displayed in the one place.
If people are developing their own reports, then get them to share with you, modify and save, then share with generic user, save and share again. Then remove your own version. You could even switch off the ability to save in the database so people develop by saving locally then give you the reports when done.
Regards,
Gareth
Blog: http://garethroberts.blogspot.com/

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