NOT SEE BIP FOLDER ASSIGNED BY USING BIEE EXTERNAL DATABASE TABLE AUTHENTIC

Question

All users using BIEE external database table authentication cannot see the BI Publisher folders and data source assign to their roles.
### Steps to Reproduce ###
1) I create one table in Oracle database to store user name, password, group name and etc as
follows:
CREATE TABLE "KPI_STAGE"."USER_INFO_TAB" (
"USER_ID" VARCHAR2(30 byte) NOT NULL,
"PASSWORD" VARCHAR2(50 byte),
"DISPLAY_NAME" VARCHAR2(50 byte),
"GROUP_ID" VARCHAR2(250 byte),
"LOG_LEVEL" VARCHAR2(5 byte),
CONSTRAINT "USER_INFO_PK_1" PRIMARY
KEY("USER_ID")
2) I create one session variable initialization block named "security_test" as follows:
2.1)Data Source: select USER_ID,DISPLAY_NAME,LOG_LEVEL,GROUP_ID,GROUP_ID from USER_INFO_TAB where
PASSWORD=':PASSWORD' and USER_ID=upper(':USER')
2.2)Variable Target: USER, DISPLAYNAME,LOGLEVEL,GROUP and WEBGROUPS
3) I can use user_id and password to login into BIEE and BIP then.
4) According to [http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/discuss/msgReader$223?mode=topic&y=2007&m=4&d=2]
I use "Oracle BI Server" Security Model for BI Publisher.
5)After I use 'Administrator' user to login into BIP, I create one BIP role "XML_USER"and assign some BIP folders and data source to this role.
5) I update the role name "XML_USER" into table user_info_tab
column GROUP_ID.
update table user_info_tab set group_id = 'XML_USER'
6) I think I can use some user in the table"user_info_tab" to login into BIP and see the folders which I have assigned to the role 'XML_USER'.
But the result is that: I can login into BIP but can not see assigned folders.
However
If in the step 2.1 above for the initialization block, I don't include PASSWORD in the select language:
2.1)Data Source: select USER_ID,DISPLAY_NAME,LOG_LEVEL,GROUP_ID,GROUP_ID from USER_INFO_TAB where USER_ID=upper(':USER')
I can see the assigned BIP folders, but it is not security.
Any one know how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Hi,
I am also using external database authentication.
The table contains user, group and password info which is passed on to BI application thru init_user_details init block in RPD. Follow is the query used.
SELECT USERNAME, GRP FROM NXRP_MST_USR_TYPE WHERE USERNAME=':USER' AND PASSWORD=':PASSWORD'
and the username and group is saved in Session variables USER and GROUP respectively.
Also "Oracle BI Server" security model is used in the BI Publisher.
I am able to login in to BI Answers but not into BIP.
I have also set SA system subject Area.
Could some one help?
Thanks