Thursday, July 10, 2014

OBIEE 11g: How To Prevent Users from Deleting My Folder

In OBIEE 11g, how can you stop users from deleting My Folders in the web catalog?


  1. Log in to OBIEE as Administrator.
  2. Click on the Catalog link.
  3. Click on Admin View.
  4. Click on Catalog Root.
  5. Under User Folders, select More > Permissions.
  6. Add Authenticated user role if it is already not present.
  7. Set Permissions to Custom.
  8. In the pop-up box, make sure the Delete option is unchecked.
  9. Check the following two flags after setting the permission to custom:
    1. Apply permissions to sub-folders.
    2. Apply permissions to items within folder.
  10. Save the changes.

-Asifkhan P.