BI Dashboard Builder - CMiC BI Security Setup - Step 1: BI Administrator Setup

A BI Administrator is someone that has security privileges for administering BI Dashboard Builder and BI Catalog Builder.

System Privileges for BI Administrators

To set up a user as a BI Administrator, grant the user the following system privileges. For details about granting system privileges, please refer to the following article: BI Dashboard Builder - Assigning System Privileges.

BISECMNG – System Privilege (Dashboard Builder & Catalog Builder)

Grants BI Administrators full security privileges for BI Catalog Builder, giving them access to all data sources in BI Catalog Builder in order to grant members of security roles access to data sources and their business areas and folders.

Note though, if Catalog Security was enabled in BI Catalog Builder, by using the “Assign Roles” context menu option, in BI Dashboard Builder they will only have access to data sources to which they have been granted access via BI Catalog Builder. Typically, though, admins would not need access to data sources in BI Dashboard Builder - only BI Developers would.

In BI Dashboard Builder, this privilege grants administrator’s access to the Assign Roles to Dashboards option (see Assign Roles to Dashboards – Dashboard Security), to grant members of security roles access to dashboards/queries/cards. Note, this option is available without opening a dashboard.

BIDBRDEDIT – System Privilege (Dashboard Builder)

Allows a BI Administrator or BI Developer to create, edit and delete dashboards.

BICTLGBLDR – System Privilege (Catalog Builder)

Allows a BI Administrator or BI Developer to access BI Catalog Builder.