Examples About Reports & Folders
Formerly KB article 674.
Note: Before applying any security rules (including the examples below) to a user or role, please test them.
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Report-level security allows you to control user-level access to things like:
- Individual reports
- Report Types (Crystal Reports, hard-coded reports, and Report Writer reports)
- The properties of a report
- Viewing existing reports in a list
- The standard list of reports
- RPF files
- Folders
The examples in this subject show you how to set up the more common security settings in Millennium®’s reporting area.
Important: Setting up these rules incorrectly may prevent your users from being able to log in. The system will give the user a “Runtime Error: abnormal program termination” message. Before implementing any of the examples in this section, use them on a test role or user first. Once you verify the results, use them for your roles & users.
The First Step for the Following Examples
All of the examples and instructions in the sub-topics that follow assume you follow these steps first:
- Select System > Security > Users > user:
- Add a new rule according the steps in Rules.
These sub-topics provides common security examples: