Giving users access to Excel reports created from cubes

I have created several Excel dashboards and would like to give regular users access to view them. I'd like them to be able to choose their own date ranges using different slicers in the dashboards. What kind of security do I need to setup to
give a user access to these with only view rights? It looks like right now they receive a datasource error when they open the files.
Thanks in advance!

On the DW SQL Server, click Start, click All Programs, click
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and then click SQL Server Management Studio.
In the Connect to Server dialog box, in the Server type list, select
Analysis Services.
In the Server name box, select or type the name of the server where the DW DB Server is located, and then click
Connect.
In Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, in Object Explorer, expand the <server name> node, expand the
Databases node, expand the DWASDataBase node, and then expand the
Roles node.
Double-click the SCDW_Report_Readers node.
In the Edit Role dialog box, in the Select a page pane, click
Membership.
Click Add to add users or click Remove to delete users, and then follow the instructions on the screen. This adds and deletes users who have access to the whole cube.
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