Create Security Groups for Extended Dimensions

You can use this tab to create new and maintain existing security groups for extended dimensions. You connect dimension codes or dimension levels to a security group. You can then limit the access rights for the selected dimension elements.

For information about defining access levels, see Create Security Groups.

When you work with access rights with a dimension level:

  • If you assign certain access rights to a dimension level, the underlying dimension levels will automatically be given the same access rights.
  • If you have included a dimension level in the security group, you cannot exclude an underlying dimension level from the same security group.

Procedure

  1. On the Maintain menu, click Rights/ Security Groups. The Security Groups window opens.
  2. On the Extended Dimensions tab, in the Create New drop-down list box, select extended dimension structure.
  3. Click the New button to create a new security group for the selected extended dimension structure.
  4. In the Code text box, enter the code for the new security group.
  5. In the Name - Group and Name - Local text boxes, enter the name for the security group in the local and group languages.
  6. In the Available list box, select the extended dimension codes or the extended dimension level you want to include in the security group.
  7. Click the mover buttons to move the selected extended dimension codes or extended dimension group to the Selected list box. In the Selected list box, all selected extended dimension codes are displayed in the structure they belong to. When you move an extended dimension level, all extended dimension codes below that level are automatically included. If you want to define different access rights for single extended dimension codes within the same extended dimension level, you need to add these extended dimension codes separately. If you have included an extended dimension level in the security group, you cannot exclude an underlying extended dimension level from the security group.
  8. Select Access Rights.
  9. Click Save.

Results

If a user creates a new extended dimension code, it will automatically be added to the extended dimension security group the user belongs to.