Sharing Discoverer Workbooks to limited number of Responsibilities

Hi,
I have developed multiple discoverer reports (multiple workbooks) in discoverer plus from a partcular responsibility.
Now when I log out of discoverer plus and log in again selecting a different responsibility, I am able to see all the workbooks which were created initially selecting above responsibility.
So what is happening is I am able to see all the workbooks from whatever responsibility, I am selecting.
I want to have a restriction e.g. say workbook 1 & 2 will only be accessible/seen from responsibility1 and not responsibility2.
Please advise on this as I am trying some workaround as well. Please copy also to : [email protected]
Regards,
Alok Datta

Hi Rod,
I experinced one thing while following the below steps:
1) I created folder-XX_FOLDER in discoverer administartor under the business area - XX_BA from SYSADMIN user(so SYSADMIN is the owner)
2) Rt Cllicked on XX_BA
3) Clicked on Security
4) For the Business Are -> User tab, SYSADMIN user is displayed among the SELECTED user/responsibilities list
5) I selected SYSADMIN to bring it to the AVAILABLE user/responsibilities list (i.e. I tried to revoking from SYSADMIN)
6) While dragging from SELECTED to available it displayed a message "You are revoking access to a business area for the currently connected user. Are you sure this is what you wanted to do ?"
7) I clicked on YES
8) Next time when I logged into discoverer administrator, I didn't see the business area (XX_BA)
Could you please let me know how can I retrieve back the XX_BA business area in discoverer administartor. I am pretty sure that it is still available somewhere as the workbook corresponding to XX_BA are still accessible in discoverer plus for SYSADMIN user.
Regards,
Alok

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