Security on Calc Scripts in Excel Addin

Hi All,
We have a requirement where users will be running Calc scripts in Essbase through Excel addin. is there any way that I can restrict users to use only particular Calc Script. Any help will be greatful.
Thanks in advance.

If you externaized Essbase security to Shared Services then you would grant the user access to run a calc in Shared services, similar to doing it in EAS.
One thing to note, Calc access by itself will give a user full write access to the entire databae unless you have a security filter to limit what they can read/write. If you are granting calc access, be sure you are also setting up a filter.

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when you say stops to run, do you mean the calc script ends or that it stalls and is not calculating anything else? If it is the latter, then prehaps when you retireive, you have turned in update mode in your options which locks the cells until you are done. You could check this by going into EAS/AAS and checking for locks (not locked objects). If you lock the cells the Calc has to wait for them to be unlocked to allow it to continue.
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