Granting Permissions for Custom Widgets

You can grant permissions for working with custom widgets in your users' roles.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the rights to edit roles in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Context

The following standard application roles delivered with SAP Analytics Cloud include tasks related to custom widgets:
Role Description
System Owner Includes all authorizations that are required to create, view, update or delete custom widgets.
Administrator
BI Administrator Includes all authorizations that are required to view custom widgets.
BI Content Creator
BI Content Viewer
Application Creator
Viewer
Modeler
Planner Reporter

In addition, you can enhance other roles with permissions for working with custom widgets.

Procedure

  1. From the side navigation, select Start of the navigation path (Security) Next navigation step  RolesEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Select the role you want to enhance with the analytics designer capability or create a new role by clicking (Add Role).
  3. Under Permissions, go to the Custom Widget row and select the required permissions for this role.
    Option Description
    Create Users assigned to this role can create (upload) custom widgets.
    Read Users assigned to this role can use custom widgets in the analytic application.
    Update Users assigned to this role can replace uploaded custom widgets.
    Delete Users assigned to this role can delete custom widgets.
    Note

    Note that when you remove the Read permission you also remove the Update and Delete permissions.

  4. (optional) You can expand the Custom Widget row to specify the permission in more detail.
  5. Select (Save).

Results

This task sets the permissions for all custom widgets. It is also possible to set the Read, Update, and Delete permission for each custom widget individually by expanding the Custom Widget row.
Caution

Be careful to whom you assign the Upload permission, because uploading custom widgets is functionally equivalent to a software update (of custom widgets).