Assigning access to users

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Users' interaction with dashboards and views is determined by the permissions set by the WebSphere® Portal roles. Roles provide different permissions for the ways users can interact with the dashboards and views.

In this exercise, you will assign User access to John Adams on the Order Processing dashboard. You will also assign him Privileged User access on one of the dashboard views, My Alerts.

To assign access, complete the following steps:
  1. Go to the Administration tab.
  2. Click Access, and then Resource Permissions. The Select resource type page opens.
  3. Click Pages, and browse to the Order Processing page, and then click the Assign access icon assign access icon.
  4. On the Resource Permission page, click the Edit Role icon edit role icon that corresponds to the User role column.
    resource permissions: user

  5. Click Add to add a member to this role.
  6. Use the search capabilities to select the required user. Select User. From the Search by list, select ibm-primaryEmail. You will search forjadams@abc.org.
  7. Select the correct result, and then click OK. An information message confirms the addition of the user to the role.
  8. To assign a Privileged User role to John Adams, on the My Alerts portlet, click Portlets on the Select resource type page. Browse to My Alerts portlet, and then click the Assign access icon assign access icon.
  9. On the Resource Permission page, click the Edit Role icon edit role icon that corresponds to the Privileged User role column.
  10. Repeat steps 5 to 7 to add John Adams as a member to the Privileged User role.
This is the final exercise of the Administering dashboards tutorial.

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