Another agreement on this issue. All Report Builder
Development is done thru our IT department.
A few "trusted users" have access to Report Builder,
but I've setup .prl libraries for their use.
Report Builder is an open book to your database.
--- Thad Jacobs <tjacobs@...> wrote:
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Development is done thru our IT department.
A few "trusted users" have access to Report Builder,
but I've setup .prl libraries for their use.
Report Builder is an open book to your database.
--- Thad Jacobs <tjacobs@...> wrote:
> I Agree. Keep report writing to one person, or one__________________________________________________
> dedicated department.
>
> Thaddeus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Winter, Patrick
> [mailto:pjw@...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Report Builder Security
>
>
> Another option is to keep all report builder design
> and change work in the
> IT dept. You can design reports with bad joins,
> filters, etc.. which would
> report false data, run very slow, chew up server
> processor time, etc... I
> think its more effective/efficient for a company to
> have one goto person.
>
> Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thad Jacobs [mailto:tjacobs@...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:48 PM
> To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Report Builder Security
>
>
> There are three options.
>
> 1 - create a test database that has less sensitive
> data / has the sensitive
> data changed or removed.
> 2 - Honor system
> 3 - set up progress permissions (which would require
> every vantage user to
> login twice). I don't know how to do this, and hear
> its more trouble than
> its worth.
>
> If you want to use crystal instead, and are on
> progress vantage 5.1/progress
> 9.1C, there is a more convenient way to set up SQL
> permissions so that ODBC
> users only have access to certain tables. Vantage
> support informed me of
> this option, though we haven't implemented it yet
> because we're still on
> 3.0.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but Vantage does
> not inherently posess a
> user-friendly, flexible means of managing report
> builder You can secure
> reports so that only certain users can see them, but
> report writers pretty
> much have, by default, unfettered read access to the
> DB.
>
> Thaddeus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hebarna [mailto:hbarna@...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:23 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Report Builder Security
>
>
> Just wondering what people were doing regarding the
> issue of security
> and Report Builder, we are starting to train users
> to use Report
> Builder, but don't want everyone to have access to
> all tables. Is
> there some way around this, everyone tells me no,
> but this isn't an
> acceptable answer for some. If there is no way to
> restrict access, is
> there an alternatve?
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Helen Barna
> Niven Marketing
>
>
>
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