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About OracleAS Reports Services Security
permissions to see the report object. For example, if the report object is on a page,
the user must have appropriate privileges to see the page and the reports object.
Otherwise, OracleAS Portal will not display the page or the report object to the
user.
If the report is not to be run from within OracleAS Portal, the user must somehow
have gained access to the URL that launches the report request (e.g., via a link on a
Web page or a bookmark).
2. The report request is made via one of the following methods:
■ From within OracleAS Portal, the user requests to run the report object (e.g.,
clicks the Run link).
■ From outside of OracleAS Portal, the user chooses a link or a bookmark that
contains a URL that requests the report.
Note: The URL may optionally contain or reference (i.e., via the
key map file) a Single Sign-On parameter (SSOCONN) with a value
of the form:
key_name/data_source_type/parameter_name
In the case of an Oracle database, the Single Sign-On value would
look something like the following:
mykey/OracleDB/userid
If you do not specify a data source type and parameter name, an
Oracle database is assumed.
3. The URL redirects the user to either rwservlet or the JSP depending upon
whether this report has been set to execute via rwservlet or a JSP.
4. If you used SSOCONN in your URL, rwservlet checks the Single Sign-On key
against the Oracle Internet Directory to see if it already has been mapped to a data
source connection string (e.g., scott/tiger@my_or_db).
5. If you used SSOCONN and the Oracle Internet Directory already has a connection
string associated with the key, then rwservlet uses that connection string for the
data source connection of the report. If you used SSOCONN but Oracle Internet
Directory does not already contain a connection string for the key, the Oracle
Delegated Administration Services Create Resource page is displayed and the user
must enter their data source connection string. See Figure 9–1. Oracle Delegated
Administration Services stores the string in Oracle Internet Directory for future
use and rwservlet uses the newly entered connection string for the data source
connection string of the report.
Note: Because of this feature, many users can use the same report
URL even if they all use different data source connection strings.
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