Restricting changes to reports in "READ-ONLY" folders

Hi,
We are using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition v10.1.3.4. We have created our own custom folder under the "Shared Folders" item in OBIEE Answers module; and have added some reports to it. The custom folder has been given "READ" access for all the users of the application.
With this setup in place we see that the users can modify the criteria of the reports in the custom shared folder but they cannot save any changes to the report. Is there any way we can limit the users from not being able to change even the criteria for the "read-only" reports?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks and Regards,
Piyush

I agree. If the users don't need to have any access to Answers, then that privilege should be removed. Not knowing your business rules and the privileges granted to users, I would suggest just allowing the users to just view the reports on the dashboard.
If you have other questions, I would suggest checking out the following website: http://www.biconsultinggroup.com and click on the Education tab. The BICG University courses that BICG offers are quite extensive.
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