Choose an Oracle system profile to apply to the user or role from the Select an

Controlling Access to Information 7-11 ■ If you want to grant or deny administration privileges to a user or role, you must also grant or deny that user administration access to the business area. For more information, see How to specify a user or role responsibility that can access a business area . ■ If you run Discoverer Administrator as an Oracle Applications user, the Privileges dialog shows Oracle Applications Responsibilities instead of roles. For more information about Oracle Applications mode, see Chapter 17, Using Discoverer with Oracle Applications . How to set query retrieval limits You can maintain overall system performance by setting query limits for users and roles. Note: When Oracle Applications database users are connected, Discoverer Administrator displays responsibilities instead of roles. To set query retrieval limits for a user or role:

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Choose Tools | Privileges and display the Privileges dialog: Query Governor tab . Figure 7–11 Privileges dialog: Query Governor tab 2. Click Select to display the Select UserRole dialog where you can search for and select the user or role for which you want to specify a query limit. 7-12 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Figure 7–12 Select UserRole dialog

3. Enter the search criteria in the Search For field and click Go.

Discoverer Administrator displays the search results in the Results list. 4. Select a user or role from the Results list. 5. Click OK to display the Privileges dialog: Query Governor tab for the selected user or role. 6. Specify the following Query Governor options as required: 7. Click OK to save the changes you have made and close the Privileges dialog. Notes ■ To find out how Discoverer estimates the time a query will take to run and the number of rows the query will retrieve, see Chapter 20, Predicting Query Performance . ■ Where Discoverer estimates that a query will take longer to run than the limit you set, you can specify that the user must run the query as a scheduled workbook using options on the Privileges dialog: Privileges tab . ■ If you run Discoverer Administrator as an Oracle Applications user, the Privileges dialog shows Oracle Applications Responsibilities instead of roles. For more Option Use to: Warn user if predicted time exceeds: issue a warning if the estimated time to perform a query exceeds the limit you specify Prevent queries from running longer than: stop queries that have been running for longer than the limit you specify Limit retrieved data to: restrict the number of rows a query can retrieve to the limit you specify