Configuration Settings in Reports Configuration Files

16 Deploying Reports in Oracle Portal 16-1 16 Deploying Reports in Oracle Portal The steps for deploying reports in Oracle Portal is the same in 11g Release 1 11.1.1 as in prior releases. However, the security mechanism underlying the deployment has changed. You can continue to use the security features in Oracle Portal from prior releases for backward compatibility, but you can now also choose to use the new Oracle Platform Security Services security mechanism. For more information, see Chapter 15, Securing Oracle Reports Services . This chapter describes how to use Oracle Portal to deploy your Oracle Reports Services reports. It includes the following sections: ■ Creating Reports Users and Named Groups ■ Registering Oracle Reports Components ■ Publishing Your Report as a Portlet ■ Troubleshooting Information Before you deploy reports, both Oracle Portal and Oracle Reports Services must be installed and configured.

16.1 Creating Reports Users and Named Groups

If you use the security features in Oracle Portal to control access to your reports, you must register all of your Reports users in Oracle Internet Directory and assign security privileges to all of them through Oracle Portal. See also: The following resources for further information: ■ Chapter 8, Configuring Oracle Reports Services for information on configuring Oracle Reports Services ■ The Oracle Portal Administrators Guide for information on configuring Oracle Portal ■ The Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Planning Guide for information on installing both components ■ The Oracle Fusion Middleware documentation CD ■ The Oracle Technology Network, http:www.oracle.comtechnologyindex.html 16-2 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services In Oracle Portal, security privileges can be granted to individual users and to named groups of users. Named groups are useful for streamlining the process of granting access privileges. You can assign a set of access privileges to a named group, and grant the entire set of privileges to an individual simply by adding that person to the group. The next sections provide overview information on how to create users and groups in Oracle Portal. They include: ■ Default Reports-Related Groups ■ Creating Users and Groups

16.1.1 Default Reports-Related Groups

When you install Oracle Portal, Reports-related groups are created for you automatically. These include the following groups: ■ RW_BASIC_USER ■ RW_POWER_USER ■ RW_DEVELOPER ■ RW_ADMINISTRATOR You must assign appropriate privileges to these groups to enable group members to perform specific functions on reports through Oracle Portal. For example, for each report object that you want members of a group for example, RW_BASIC_USER to be able to run, you have to grant the Execute privilege to that group from the Access tab of the report object. Similarly, if you want members of a group for example, RW_ ADMINISTRATOR to be able manage Reports Servers, printers, and reports, you have to grant the Manage privilege to that group from the Access tab of those objects. While you can assign object privileges to individual users, we recommend that every person who will access your reports belong to one of these groups or a group that you create yourself. If users try to run reports without being a member of one of these groups, by default, they are assigned the privileges of a basic user. Note: If you have a large user population already entered into an LDAP-compatible directory, you can use Oracle Internet Directory features to synchronize the directories and save yourself the effort of entering your users individually. Youll find information about Oracle Internet Directorys Directory Integration Server in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Internet Directory. Note: When you use features like Oracle Portal Security, Portal Destination, and Job Status Repository, the JDBC database connections made by Oracle Reports Services may override the initial NLS_LANG setting. This change may in turn affect the behavior of the running report, such as bidirectional output in PDF. On UNIX platforms, you can work around this issue by using the environment switching functionality to dynamically set the environment for reports. Refer to Section 8.2.2, Dynamic Environment Switching for more information.