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Registering Oracle Reports Components in OracleAS Portal
Ideally, you should provide a user with the necessary privileges on objects by
assigning them to a group that has appropriate privileges for their role. For example, if
you are creating a user who needs to be able to run but not manage reports, you could
assign her to RW_BASIC_USER. If need be, you may assign object privileges to
individual users (e.g., JSMITH) rather than groups, but this approach is more difficult
and time consuming to manage.
11.2 Registering Oracle Reports Components in OracleAS Portal
Before you begin, you must have a sufficient level of privileges in OracleAS Portal to
access the portlets and complete the tasks required for setting access controls. In order
to manage reports in OracleAS Portal, you must belong to both the PORTAL_
ADMINISTRATORS and RW_ADMINISTRATOR groups. If you only belong to RW_
ADMINISTRATOR, you will encounter errors when you attempt to create report
objects.
For more information about joining privilege groups in OracleAS Portal, refer to the
Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide.
This section outlines the necessary steps to go about:
■ Creating an Availability Calendar
■ Registering a Printer
■ Registering a Reports Server
■ Registering a Report
11.2.1 Creating an Availability Calendar
See Also: Running Report Requests
For more information on running reports in OracleAS Portal.
Defining availability calendars is an optional step that allows you to further restrict
access to reports, servers, and printers by specifying when they can and cannot be
accessed. Availability calendars are not necessary if the reports, the Reports Servers,
and printers are always available for processing.
This section provides information on:
■ Creating a Simple Availability Calendar
■ Creating a Combined Availability Calendar
You can associate only one availability calendar with a report, a Reports Server, or a
printer. If your production environment requires more than one availability rule, then
you can combine availability calendars.
11.2.1.1 Creating a Simple Availability Calendar
A simple availability calendar defines a single availability rule (for example, Sunday
through Saturday from 12:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.).
To create a simple availability calendar:
1. Log in as an administrator to OracleAS Portal.
2. Navigate to the Builder page.
3. Click the Administer tab.
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