Preparing
Security for Our Exercises
We
will make adjustments to ensure that the credentials requirement above presents
no issue within our immediate exercise, assuming "out of the box"
Reporting Services / sample reports setup. First, let's modify security to
enable all capabilities from the outset, establishing ourselves as
complete "power users" for this and subsequent lessons, rather than
addressing all possible settings involved in each of the many exercises ahead.
NOTE: In establishing all rights and
privileges to the BUILTIN\Administrators group in my example, I am
assuming that you are 1) in a development or other non-production environment,
2) that you have authority to set security this way in your environment for
purposes of our exercises, and 3) that you have all necessary accesses /
capabilities to make and apply the modifications that we undertake. If your
environment or other situational factors vary from these assumptions, and for specific
roles for which you may need to perform modifications (perhaps other than BUILTIN\Administrators),
please review the Books Online for guidance in the setup of
security in a manner that will comply with your local requirements, while allowing
you the privileges and accesses you need to effectively complete the steps we
will undertake.
1.
Click the Home
link atop the FoodMart
Sales Report view.
The Home
page appears, defaulted to the Contents tab.
2.
Click the Properties
tab.
The Properties
page appears.
3.
Click the Edit
link to the left of the BUILTIN\Administrators line item, shown circled
in red in Illustration 9.
Illustration 9: Editing
the BUILTIN\Administrators Role Assignments
...
The
Edit Role Assignment page appears.
4.
Click the link
for the Browser role, shown circled in Illustration 10.
Illustration 10: Editing
the Browser Role ...
The
Edit Role page appears.
5.
Click the checkbox
to the left of the Task heading, atop the page.
All
checkboxes become checked for the Browser role, as shown in Illustration
11.
Illustration 11: Selecting
All Checkboxes for the Role
6.
Click OK
to accept all settings and return to the Edit Role Assignment page.
7.
Perform steps 4
through 6 for each of the following roles:
- Content Manager
- My Reports
- Publisher
8.
Select the
check box for each role on the Edit Role Assignment page by clicking the
checkbox to the left of the Role heading, atop the page.
We
have, in effect, given each role all its possible privileges, and are now assigning
all roles to our security group. The intent here, again, is not simply to
prepare for the steps ahead in this article, but to eliminate time-consuming
adjustments for articles that will follow this one in the Reporting
Services series.
The
Edit Role Assignment page, all roles selected, appears as depicted in Illustration
12.
Illustration 12: Selecting
All Roles for Our Group
9.
Click the Apply
button to apply changes and to close the Edit Role Assignment page.
We are
returned to the Home page - Properties tab.
10.
Click the Contents
tab.
11.
Click the link
for the FoodMart Sales report, once again.
12.
Select the Non-Consumable Product Family in the parameter selector dropdown list, once more.
13.
Click the View
Report button to refresh the report again.
We are
now ready to undertake the creation of a standard subscription.
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