Can a security manager access or see another user’s unshared BAQ?
Thanks
You won’t see their BAQ’s in the search window.
But if you know the name, you can type it in and it will show. However it will be “Read only” (no saving changes) - because it was created by another author…
IIRC, you can setup a BAQ that’ll list the BAQs in the system, including the non-shared ones, or I may of had to use SSMS query. It was back in early E10.0 days so may of been a unintended “feature” that has been corrected. Came in handy though to find the BAQs a ex-coworker had left and a user wanted the same “report”
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I assume you could see the name of a BAQ that drives a dashboard, even if that BAQ wasn’t shared. The dashboard wouldn’t run, but you could see the baq id, and possible open it with a right click.
I always assume the a user designated as security manager has full access to everything. This includes ignoring menu , field and process security settings.
If you worry that your Security Managers may purposely mess with others non-shared BAQ’s, you’ve got bigger problems on your hands.
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A user created a BAQ and didn’t check the Share box. I, as a security manager, cannot see it in the search window. I want to know if there is any way that I can access/see it. Thanks.
If you know its baq ID, just type that in the field in an empty BAQ designer form. You’ll be able to see it, but can’t change anything.
The first picture shows a BAQ created by user ‘manager’, which is not shared. This window was when logged in as ‘manager’.
The second is when user ‘ckrusen’ launches the BAQ Designer, and manually (or via Copy and paste) enters the BAQ ID.
But it does look like you can change the author. Below is when user ‘ckrusen’ loads a non-shared BAQ created by user ‘manager’
Thanks a lot, Calvin.
Another question. Do you know how to export a BAQ from TEST to Production other than solution manager?
I’ve always just used Export BAQ and Import BAQ in the BAQ Designer. Granted it doesn’t let you import one with the same name as an existing BAQ. It think …
I am late to this thread I think there is a change in behavior between the other writers’ versions and yours. We just upgraded from 10.2.200 to 10.2.700. We used to run a query created by someone who is no longer with the company. We used to run them by typing in the exact name.
However, in the new 10.2.700 world, we now get an error message that they are not shared and we can’t even load them to make a copy with a new owner.
Luckily I can still get back to my old 200 world and can make shared copies of what we need.
Was also considering seeing if I could write an updatable BAQ against the BAQ table to set the flag to “shared”