Data access within a client/org
28 April, 2016
unless I've misunderstood your scenario, it sounds to me like you should be using the Yellowfin feature for row-level security called Source Access Filters.
Please read through the above wiki page and see if that doesn't meet your requirements.
regards,
Dave
Person A is working on Project A in our system, clicks to the embedded yellowfin instance, we want to only allow reporting on project A.
Person A later comes in and is working on project B, clicks to the embedded yellowfin instance, we want to only allow reporting on project B.
Through the APIs and SSO right now we are able to set the person's client org and restrict data access that way and would like to do something similar. We have some users that have access to multiple client orgs and they choose the org they are working on in our software and we pass that in when they go into Yellowfin. We are looking for the same type of functionality for the projects underneath a client org where we can pass in the client org and pass in the project and tie that to some data restrictions in Yellowfin. In my reading of the source filters, it doesn't seem like it has all the capability we need to do this but I may be wrong. Thanks!
It does sound like you need a client ref source filter (so this is a source filter that is automatically applied and cannot be turned off on the report), and then a separate source filter, which would be your 2nd layer of security.
E.g. Client ref id = Company Name
Source filter 2 = State code
So each client only sees the data relating to that company , and then different users will have different values for their state filters.
Tf you would like this to apply to the report data page also, you need to ensure that the source filters are set up as default filters at the view level, and the user does NOT have the role 'Access Filter' ticked. This is will ensure that all reports based on that view will have both source filters applied and that they cannot turn it off.
I hope this makes sense and gives you what you were after!
If not, please let me know.
Thanks,
David