Row level security in discoverer desktop

currently, I have designed a business area on one of my star schema, and I created several other business area in order to allow different level of users to view the pre-defined reports on discoverer desktop. and I want different users to view different data from my star schema tables. So I created some criteria on those business area.
e.g. condition on bus_area1 : sales_manager="man01",
condition on bus_area2 : sales_manager="man02"
in short, i want to enable record level security by using discoverer's conditions.
but unfortunately, even I un-checked "Create/Edit Query" privileges on discoverer administrator for those users, they still can modify the worksheet. So they can just remove my condition and to view data that they shouldnot be able to see..
can any one tell me how to solve this problem, or how to do row level security in discoverer?
What can I do if I want to disable "edit worksheet" in discoverer desktop from users??
thanks in advance..
Marco

Marco,
Probably the best way to achieve row-level security is to upgrade to 9.0.4.1 and take advantage of the new functionality of Discoverer to pass the SSO user to the DB query. You would apply Oracle Fine Grained Security/VPD/striping on the DB tables using a policy based on SSO userid. Then using Disco 9.0.4.1 the user would see only the data they are privileged to see. However this works only in a web environment (Discoverer Plus, Viewer and Portlets) not for Desktop.
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