A very common question when it comes to SAP BusinessObjects is: How should I manage my SAP BusinessObjects security authorizations? Although that is an extremely broad topic, today I want to discuss the issue of leveraging an external corporate directory to manage user authorizations. NOTE: It’s important to remember that only the user/group membership gets […]
Tag Archives: Security
BusinessObjects Security Quiz
Do you understand BusinessObjects security? Granted Yes? Denied No? Not Specified Not Sure? Well now is your chance to prove it. Show us how good you really are. My son always loves to test me with hypotheticals. Dad can I have permission to see that R-rated movie?… No. What if I take the dog for […]
Real World Guide to Setting up Kerberos
[UPDATED 10/1/2010 – See Below] I was recently involved with the configuration of Kerberos with a customer and as I was reading about it in the documentation, I realized that there were a number of areas that lacked the clarity I needed to understand what information SAP BusinessObjects needed to know about my environment. The […]
Row-level Security Trick with WebIntelligence
Can I Get Row-level Security with WebIntelligence and Still Avoid a Document Refresh? Sure! As a follow-up to my post yesterday I wanted to step back and say that normally you do want to handle row-level security from within the semantic layer. The problem is that you can’t get the benefit of the speed of […]
Row-level Security Trick with Crystal Reports
Row-level Security on Scheduled Instances Without the Use of Business Views When I realized that I could get row-level security on scheduled instances without using Business Views I thought, I have to share this with everyone. When you schedule a report, the engine retrieves all the data based on the credentials of the user running […]