Dashboard Group View Inheritance
By Emma Schwarz
When you hear the word inheritance, do you start thinking about your millionaire uncle and his will? Well, in this article, I will try to steer your thoughts toward the more practical subject of how to configure the Business Intelligence Dashboard so that when a user’s My View is created, it inherits
the look and content of a Group View rather than a public view.
In the last issue I described how to create a user’s My View and how to change the view inheritance for a particular user from one public view to another (“How to Manage Dashboard View Inheritance,” WebFOCUS Newsletter, December 2003). But what if your users
need to inherit a group view, rather than a public view? This option is not available by default, but it can be easily configured manually with the following steps:
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Edit the file ibi/WebFOCUS52/worp/conf/bid-config.xml. |
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Locate the line that specifies whether the Group View can be inherited:
<internal-var
name="copyGBVOnFirstLogin"
value="false"/>
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Change the value of this parameter from “false” to “true.” |
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Save the change to bid-config.xml. |
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Reload the Web application. |
After this change is made, when a new user logs into a group view, that group view will be copied to create the user’s My View. From the group view, the Views banner link will show the group views to which the user has, in addition to the user’s My View. The My View will have the identical look and
content as the group view with which the user started.
However, if a new user selects the login link from a public view to log in the first time to the My View, the My View will inherit the look and content of the public view, not the group view. The same holds true if a user accesses the Dashboard login page directly through the URL http://hostname/ibi_apps/bid/login.
The general public view will be inherited, not a group view.
Any users who logged in to their My View before the change was made to bid-config.xml will still have the same My View as before. You can update their inheritance to be that of the group view in the same way you would for public views, which was described in my last article.
And it’s as simple as that. While what I described in this article may not make you as rich as an inheritance from a millionaire uncle, I hope it will prove useful to you and your users.
 
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