Access Rights to the Report on the BAT level

After closing designer the program will offer you to set access rights to the report:

Higher we talked about the rights for the users on data in cubes (correspondence between the report module users and the roles in Analysis Services). Regardless of this, you can set in the BAT who of the users what report can see. Press «Yes» and you will get this dialog:

There are BAT-roles (not to mix up with roles on cubes!) on the first tab, on the second there will be the users of the report module:

You can set access rights for every report and define what user or BAT-role can see it, and to which access is explicitly restricted. Notice that the column “Permission” can contain both a green “tick” and red “cross”:

If the values are set as shown on this picture, all users will have an access to the report (“tick” for All Users), while the user John Connor will have no access to it (red “cross” for this user).

After we set the rights, let’s press «Save».

Use this button to open the dialog for setting access rights in case if it is necessary to set them up again:

The same way you can set up the users’ permissions on report folders. To do that you have to select the corresponding item from context menu or press the button on a toolbar:

The procedure of setting up the permissions on folder is exactly the same as the one for reports.

General rule: the user will see the report in the report module only when two conditions are true:

• Either for this user or for one of his roles it is permitted to see this report or one of its parent folders (there is a green “tick”).
• Neither for the user personally nor for any of his roles there is an explicit restriction to see the report or one of its parent folders (there are no red “crosses”).