Security on Subject Areas

Question

All,
I've seen a direct way to limit access on Sub Areas in the RPD....but is there a way to do this making use of external tables to set up security?
Or do you always have to create the groups in the rpd as well and limit access to Sub Areas that way?
Txs for your help!
Kr,
A

Answer 1

If you want to make things easy then just follow the following rules:
For subject areas:
1) Create one group for each subject area in the security manager of the repository.
2) Assign explicit access for the group on the subject area in the presentation layer of the repository.
3) Set up a table which holds the relation between users and groups.
4) Use the GROUP session variable to assign users to groups, by using an external table.
For dashboards:
1) Create one webgroup for every dashboard in the Manage Presention Catalog on the Presentation server.
2) Assign explicit access for that webgroup on the dashboard.
3) Set up (another) table which holds the relation between users and webgroups.
4) Use the WEBGROUPS session variable to assign users to the webgroups.
In this case you have divided your security between subject areas and dashboards, but still both types of security can be maintained in external tables.
Regards,
Stijn