Select More and then Permissions, or go to the Click the Add usersroles button to access the In the Permissions dialog, click the Permissions list to select permissions. Most Click OK.

13-14 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Assigning Permissions Permissions determine who can access folders, BI Publisher objects, or other catalog objects. The permissions that you can assign vary depending on the type of object with which you are working. To change permissions, you must have been granted the Change Permission privilege. Use the following procedure to assign permissions to an object. For more information about permissions, see Permission Definitions , Permissions Available by Object Type , and Recommendations for Setting Permissions . To assign permissions to an object: 1. In the global header, click Catalog. The Catalog page is displayed. 2. Search for the object to which you want to assign permissions. For more information about searching, see Searching with the Basic Search . 3. Go to the Catalog area and locate an object or folder.

4. Select More and then Permissions, or go to the

Tasks pane and click Permissions . The Permission dialog is displayed.

5. Click the Add usersroles button to access the

Add Application Roles, Catalog Groups, and Users dialog to add any required accounts.

6. In the Permissions dialog, click the Permissions list to select permissions. Most

of the items that are displayed in the list are parent permissions and contain several child permissions. To build a specific list of permissions, click Custom. The Custom Permissions dialog is displayed.

7. Click OK.

Who Owns an Object? Ownership of an object can either be granted by the user who created the object or taken by a user who has been granted the proper privileges. Note that the owner of an object or folder cannot automatically access the object or folder. To access an object, the user must have the proper permissions assigned in the object or folder’s Permission dialog . By default, the user who creates and saves a catalog object to either My Folders or a Shared folder owns the object. An object in My Folders cannot be assigned to another owner unless the object is moved to a Shared folder and the Administrator assigns the privilege allowing the owner to reassign ownership. After this privilege has been granted, the ownership of the object can then be assigned to another user, group, or Tip: To provide a place for all users within an Application role to share analyses with each other, create a folder under the Subject Area folder called, for example, Share or Publish, and give the entire role ChangeDelete permission to just that folder. Note: To access an object in the catalog, users must have appropriate ACL Access Control List entries for that object. All objects in the catalog except for alerts use ACL entries. See Working with Objects in Catalog Manager in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition for information on ACL entries. Managing Objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog 13-15 role that displays in the Permission dialog . For example, suppose Employee A is a content designer and has created a dashboard for the Marketing department. Employee A completes the dashboard, saves it to the Marketing Department’s Shared folder, and assigns ownership of the dashboard to Employee B, who is a marketing manager and responsible for updating the dashboard. For more information about assigning ownership, see Assigning Ownership of Objects . In some situations a user or member of a group or role must take ownership of objects located in a Shared folder. In this case, the user who wants to take ownership must be assigned the proper privilege to complete this task. After these privileges are granted, the user sees the Take Ownership of this Item and the Take Ownership of this item and all subitems options in the Properties dialog . For example, suppose that Employee A has been granted the proper privilege to take ownership of objects and folders. When Employee B, who owns several catalog objects, leaves the company, Employee A can now access the Properties dialog for these objects, take ownership of the objects, and reassign ownership of the objects to Employee C. For more information about taking ownership, see Taking Ownership of Objects . Assigning Ownership of Objects Use the following procedure to assign ownership of an object or folder that is saved to a Shared folder. You must have the proper privilege to access the Permission dialog where you can then assign ownership of an object or folder. For more information, see Who Owns an Object? and Taking Ownership of Objects . To assign ownership of an object: 1. In the global header, click Catalog. The Catalog page is displayed. 2. Search for the object to which you want to assign ownership. For more information about searching, see Searching with the Basic Search . 3. Go to the Catalog area and locate an object or folder.

4. Select More and then Permissions, or go to the