Discoverer Desktop Connection

Question

All,
When connecting to Desktop as an ORACLE applications user I get a dialog 'Choose a Responsibility' that pops up. How can I change the list of responsibilities shown in that pop up? Also what is the significance of this pop up?
Thanks,
Vinay

Answer 1

Hi,
will you assign the responsibility to the BA or to the workbook. In (very) general there are several levels of security using discoverer, i'll go top-down:
1. in BA level you define who can see the BA and what are the privileges he should have.
It will be much easier to maintain using responsibility for that.
inside the folders you can create a mandatory condition and by that force a security rule.
best way to have in the database although it is really per demand.
2.in the workbook level you define who will be able to see the workbook and use it (he must have access to the BA)
3. in the database objects you created/ used for the BA you can define a security in the data level so that if for example you'll run a financial report each legal entity will see it's own data. the workbook can be the same but the data in it will be changed according to the security applied in the code.
Also if you assign the resp. to the BA then will all workbooks under that BA be
assigned automatically to that resp. as well.No, each workbook you want to share with a responsibility is defined manually (can assign several at once)
but for each workbook you share, the responsibility (or user BTW) must have access to the BA and this is defined in the discoverer administrator tool.
Tamir