Click the user or role in the Selected usersroles list. Select or clear the Allow Administration check box as required.

7-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Figure 7–4 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 Security dialog: Users - Business Area tab with the business areas for the selected user or role. Figure 7–5 Security dialog: Users- Business Area tab

6. Move the business areas that you want the selected user or role to have access to

from the Available business areas list to the Selected business areas list. You can select more than one business area by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking another business area. Controlling Access to Information 7-7

7. For each new business area you add to the Selected business areas list, follow the

instructions below to specify whether the selected user or role has administration access to the business area:

a. Click the business area in the Selected business areas list.

b. Select or clear the Allow Administration check box as required.

The setting of a user’s Allow Administration privilege controls which administration tasks the user can perform. For more information, see How to specify the tasks a user or role responsibility can perform . 8. Click OK to save the changes you have made and close the Security dialog. Notes ■ To remove access to a business area from a user or role, move the business area from the Selected business areas list to the Available business areas list. ■ The list of available usersroles includes a role called PUBLIC. Select this role to view or edit the default access permissions for users or roles whose permissions you have not yet explicitly defined. ■ If you run Discoverer Administrator as an Oracle Applications user, the Security dialog shows Oracle Applications Responsibilities instead of roles. For more information about Applications mode, see What features does Discoverer support for Oracle Applications users? . How to specify the tasks a user or role responsibility can perform Note: When Oracle Applications database users are connected, Discoverer Administrator displays responsibilities instead of roles. To specify the tasks a user or role can perform:

1.

Choose Tools | Privileges and display the Privileges dialog: Privileges tab . Figure 7–6 Privileges dialog: Privileges tab 7-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 2. Click Select to display the Select UserRole dialog where you can search for and select the user or role whose task privileges you want to change. Figure 7–7 Select UserRole dialog

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