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Managing Privileges

JReport Server offers these types of privileges for users, groups, and roles: Publish and Advanced Properties. Users that are granted the Publish privilege will be able to publish resources to JReport Server, while users that have the privilege of Advanced Properties are allowed to view advanced information of version properties such as catalog connections and report related resources. In order to publish resources, users must at the same time have both Publish privilege and Write permission. By default, only the role "administrators" and the user account "admin" have the Publish and Advanced Properties privileges.

To manage privileges, you must be a member of the administrator role in order to access the Administration menu in the JReport Server console.

Before managing privileges, you need to first select the realm which contains the roles/groups/users you want to grant privilege for. Then in the server console, point to Administration on the system toolbar, and then click Security > Privilege from the drop-down menu to display the Privilege page.

The following lists the privilege management tasks:

• Searching for roles/groups/users in the Available/Selected table
  1. On the corresponing search toolbar, type in the text of the principal names you want to search for and the principals containing the matched text will be listed. The search toolbar treats the principal names as strings and searches by consecutive text.
  2. Click which appears after you type in text to specify the search options.
     • Highlight All
       Specifies whether to highlight all matched text.
     • Match Case
       Specifies whether to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
     • Match Whole Word
       Specifies whether to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
  3. To cancel the search operation, clear the text or click .
• Granting role/group/user privileges
  • For roles/groups/users that already have privileges
    Roles/groups/users that already have privileges are listed in the Selected table. To assign privileges to them, select a role/group/user in the table, then check the checkbox beside the type of privilege you want to grant. Click OK to apply the changes.
  • For roles/groups/users that have neither of the privileges
    1. Select the Role/Group/User radio button below the Available box.
    2. Select the role/group/user in the Available table and click to add it to the Selected table.
    3. The newly added role/group/user is selected by default. Check the type of privilege you want to grant.
    4. Click the OK button to apply the changes.
• Removing privileges from a role/group/user
  • To remove a privilege from a role/group/user, select the role/group/user in the Selected table, uncheck the checkbox beside the privilege, then click OK to apply the changes.
  • To remove all privileges from a role/group/user, first select the role/group/user in the Selected table, then click . By doing this, the role/group/user will be deleted from the Selected table.

  You can also remove privileges from a role, group or user when editing the role, group or user.

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