Security issue in OBIEE

We have Dashboard 'AAAAA' where all the reports to this Dashboard are coming from Shared folder 'bbbbbb' .Do i have the previlege to hide the shared folder 'bbbbbb' to all the users and give access only to Dashboard 'AAAAA'.
In general users want to see only dashboard and not the saved reports in shared folder.Is this possible ? if yes please explain the scenario.
Thanks
Edited by: hsekar on Oct 31, 2009 10:34 AM

Hi hsekar,
This looks like I bug to me. I ran the following test.
1. Created Test_Folder in Shared Folders
2. Created Test_Report and saved in Test_Folder
3. Created Test_DB in Test_Folder
4. Granted Read to Everyone for Test_Folder and all sub-items and sub-folders
5. Then set Permissions to Everyone on Test_Folder to "Traverse Folder". The goal being users couldn't see that folder directly, but the could have access to everything in it since previous.
The result of that setup: Users could not see the folder in the Answers Module (YAY), however, the dashboard did not appear across the top of the screen. If the user knew the full path of the dashboard, then in the URL, the user could type in PORTALPATH=<FULL PATH>, and sure enough, the user could see the dashboard and all the metrics.
The bug is that when OBIEE generates the list of dashboards across the top, it only looks through folders that a user has "Read" permission on, and not folders that the user has "Traverse Folder" permissions. I think that is an error, since the user does have rights to it.
You might want to submit an SR and see what happens.
Good luck!
-Joe
Edited by: Joe Bertram on Dec 17, 2009 1:44 PM

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