Same report occuring twice in Discoverer Viewer.

Hi,
I am facing a problem in Discoverer Viewer wherein I have the same report which is occuring twice.
The last modified date for both of them is different but other than that the Name, Description and Owner for both are exactly same.
Can anyone please advice me what could be the reason for the same report occuring twice in Viewer.
Regards,
Shruti

Hi Shruti
First of all let's assume you have a public EUL so let's discuss what happens when you have one of these.
If you open your Admin tool and go to Tools | Privileges, look for the PUBLIC user (not role) and look at the privileges. Out of the box that user is a full user of Plus and Desktop with all privileges except Schedule. Because of this ALL users will inherit the public privileges and will become able to save workbooks to the database.
When I am setting up a new environment for a company the first thing I do is reduce the rights on the PUBLIC user so that it becomes a viewer user only. I edit the privileges and grant only the following:
Collect Query Statistics, Item Drill and Drill Out
Next, I create one or more new VIEWER roles called something like SALES_VIEWER, GL_VIEWER and so on. By default these roles will inherit the PUBLIC privileges. I leave this untouched and grant these roles to all of my viewers and report writers, using Tools | Security to control access to the business areas. I do not grant any further privileges to the VIEWER roles.
Next, I create one of more REPORT WRITER roles called something like SALES_WRITER, GL_WRITER and so on. By default these will also inherit the PUBLIC privileges. I now use Tools | Privileges to increase the privileges for these roles so that they have everything except Schedule Workbooks (you cannot assign this to a ROLE because these are stored in the user's schema and a role does not have a schema). Finally, I grant these roles to the users who will become my report writers.
Because I use the VIEWER roles to control access to the business areas and the WRITER roles to control who can edit reports I get total control.
The last step is to remove the ability to Save and Save As from the Viewer tool. You do this in application server control.
Hope this overview of managing a Discoverer environment helps
Best wishes
Michael

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