Help with external table authorization

Hi Every One,
I am using OBIEE 11.1.1.6.
I have setup MSAD authentication through rpd and every user is able to login to analytics.
And there is an external table in the database where I have all the user and their groups( all users in MSAD are in this table)
I have created session variable called GROUP to have these usergroups for authorization.
I have created the groups in the front end with exact names that are in the external table.
But I cant set up the Required privilages
every user is seeing all the reports and subject areas.
Do I need to create the application roles with exact names as groups names in rpd?
Do i need to create groups in weblogic console?
Please help me in this regard.

Hi,
I have created the groups in the front end with exact names that are in the external table.
Do I need to create the application roles with exact names as groups names in rpd?No need to create any groups or application roles in rpd.
Test Authorization init block properly.
Create application roles under console, which are nothing but groups in your external table. Apply security to dashboards accordingly.
Regards,
Srikanth

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ORA-01843: not a valid month
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ORA-01843: not a valid month
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ORA-01843: not a valid month
error processing column TRANSACTION_DATE_TIME in row 15 for datafile /home/oracle/ext_folder_test/fraud.csv
ORA-01843: not a valid month"
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BELOW IS THE DATA I AM TRYING TO ACCESS FROM THE EXCEL FILE
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5,0519,"just road, Onitsha
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7,0066,wale,Mid - west,18/02/2011,18/02/10,'05590020002924,1,55157977.53
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9,0273,waheed Biem,N/Central,Jan 09 to Dec 2010,01/04/11,Nil,1,14146040

As others suggested, you have to do the debugging yourself, To avoid the date error you may need something like this:
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      badfile 'empfraud%a.bad'
      logfile 'empfraud%a.log'
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      optionally enclosed by '"' ltrim
      missing field values are null
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ZZZ_ROOM_MASTER_EX,
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INSERT
/*+ APPEND PARALLEL("ZZZ_ROOM_FEATURES_EX") */
INTO
"ZZZ_ROOM_FEATURES_EX"
("ROOM_NUMBER",
"FEATUREID",
"QUANTITY")
(SELECT
"ZZZ_ROOM_MASTER_EX"."ROOM_NUMBER" "ROOM_NUMBER",
"INGRP2"."ID" "ID_1",
"INGRP2"."QUANTITY" "QUANTITY"
FROM
(SELECT
"UNFK"."ID" "ID",
"UNFK"."QUANTITY" "QUANTITY"
FROM
TABLE ( "ZZZ_SANDBOX_EX"."UNFK2" ("ZZZ_ROOM_MASTER_EX"."FEATURES")) "UNFK") "INGRP2",
"ZZZ_ROOM_MASTER_EX" "ZZZ_ROOM_MASTER_EX"
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Hello Everybody!
Thank you for all your response!
I had changes this work area into Internal table and changed the select query. PLease let me know if this causes any performance issues?
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ZADS :
MANDT
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ABGRU.
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Earlier :
IT_REJ is a Work area:
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VKORG TYPE VBAK-VKORG,
ABGRU TYPE VBAP-ABGRU,
END OF IT_REJ.
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PLease suggest!
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