Creating Write Access Profiles

Process for creating a write access profile

Choose Write Access Profiles from the Manage menu to create a new write access profile. This opens the Write Access Profiles dialog box. From this starting point, you follow these general steps to create a write access profile.

1. You select the financial data item that contains the data to which you want to control write access.

2. You select the set of dimensions that make up the slice of data to which you want to deny write access.

   Note: To deny write access to specific users, select the User dimension as part of the slice. To deny write access to all users, do not select the User dimension. If you do not select the User dimension, the selections that you make to deny write access to data values in the slice will apply to all users.

3. You select the values for each dimension that make up the slice of data that you want to work with.

4. You deny access to the data slice.

Example: Selecting the financial data item for the profile

The following example shows the Write Access Profile dialog box. In this example, the user selects Actuals as the financial data item for a new write access profile.

Example: Selecting dimensions for the profile

The following example shows the New Write Access Profile dialog box. In this example, the user selects Organization and Time as the dimensions to limit.

Example: Defining the data slice for the profile

This example shows the Edit Write Access Profile dialog box. In this example, the user selects dimension values that define a data slice that includes November 2000 as the Time dimension value and Government as the Organization dimension value.

Example: Denying access to the data slice

This example again shows the Edit Write Access Profile dialog box. In this example, the user denies access to the data slice. Access is denied to all users since specific users have not been selected.

Related information

For more information about creating write access profiles, search for following topic in the Financial Analyzer Help system: "Creating a Write Access Profile."