Regarding Security in OBIEE

Hi,
We have 4 regions like UK, India, US, Japan.. when ever UK users logins to OBIEE the dashboard should get defaulted to UK region and user should see UK reports only.
Similarly if a Japan, US users logins he should see reports corresponding to his region.
At present we have a prompt where user select the region from the prompt . How to implement the security for this..
Thanks

Hi,
Do the following steps and let me know if it was helpful:
1. Create a separate table say table1 which will contain the USERID and REGION columns.
Eg. User1 Region1
User1 Region2 and so on
2. Import the table in the physical layer. No need to create BM for it.Check in and save.
3.Go to Manage - Variables and create a Session - Initialization Block with connection pool pointing to above table and query as select 'REGION1' ,REGION from table1 where USERID=(':USER')
4. After the block is created go to Business Model and the table in which you want to implement the security.
Table - Sources - Content tab - add the following in the where clause
MAINTABLE.REGION IN (VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION."REGION1"))
Save the rpd. Log in and check if it is working.
Regards,
Swati

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