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2.Click BusinessObjects Enterprise Applications in the Manage section.

3.Click Web Intelligence.

4.Click Add/Remove.

5.Select Report Designers in the Available groups list.

6.Click the > button to add the group to the Groups with an access level for Web Intelligence list.

7.Click OK.

8.Click Advanced in the Net Access column of the Report Designers row.

9.Un-check the checkbox “Report Designers” will inherit rights from its parent groups if checked.

10.Select Explicitly Granted for all General and Web Intelligence rights.

11.Click Apply.

12.Click OK.

Always use the Report Designers group to add new users who can add, modify, and delete reports and perform report related management operations. This will simplify maintenance when privileges and rights need to be modified for all users who have report modification and maintenance related tasks.

Adding new users to SRM Report Optimizer

To add new users:

1.Launch the Central Management Console as described in ”Accessing the Central Management Console” on page 4.

2.Click Users in the Organize section. All valid users are listed.

3.Click New User.

4.Choose the Authentication type and enter user details. If you select LDAP/Windows or AD/Windows NT, enter the username qualified with the appropriate domain. For example americas\username.

5.Select Concurrent User or Named User for the Connection type at the bottom of the page.

6.Click OK.

7.Click the Member of tab.

8.Click Member of.

9.Select the Report Designers group and add it to the list on the right. Remove the Everyone group from the list.

10.Click OK.

11.The new user can now log in to the web interface at the following address:

http://<fqdn_or_ip_address_of_Report_Server>:8080/businessobjects/en terprise115/desktoplaunch/InfoView/logon/logon.do

8 Installing and Configuring SRM Report Optimizer on Microsoft Windows