Scheduling a webi report with no access to univ. connection

Hi,
I have a user in BO enterprise, who has access to a report, but no access to the universe & universe connection.
So ideally, the expected behavior is that, when the user schedules the report, the schedule should fail.
When I do a schedule, by clicking on the prompts, and modify, it throws me an error that the Universe and universe connection are not accessible.
But when I schedule the report, with all default settings (without modifying the prompt values), it schedules, and shows a Success status. (Though the report shows blank data)
Has anyone observed this before? Any info on this would be helpful.
Thanks.

Hi,
The use-case is:
- An administrator creates a new user (by default belongs to Everyone group) and provides access to a particular report including the scheduling privileges
- The Everyone group does not have access for the Universe or the Connection
- When this user runs the report (View on Demand) and refreshes the data (via the Refresh Data button), the error is thrown stating that the universe is not found/not accessible.
- When scheduling the same report, we see different behaviors (one of the prompt option happens to be a List of Values:
- Changing the prompt values - Clicking the modify button on the parameters page and trying to select a value for the LoV prompt throws me the Universe not found/accessible error (which is correct as the concerned user does not have access to the universe or the connection)
- With default prompt values (i.e. not changing any of the prompt values in the parameters page) - This shows that the schedule was successful and when i open the instance, it shows me blank report - The question here is, why would the schedule succeed when the user does not have the access to the universe/connection?
Thanks -
Chandra

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