Database Reference
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How to do it...
The tasks discussed in this recipe fall into three categories: planning the organization of the
environment, creating the organization folders, and delegating access to the environment.
Planning the organization of the reporting environment
The minimum planning tasks that the authors recommend are as follows:
• Plan report manager folders
• Plan reporting delegation roles
Plan report manager folders
The first part of the organization of folders deals with how you store reports. The reports
you create are stored and by default accessible from the report manager website. You have
the option to store these reports in folders for ease of organization, and they additionally
provide you with folder-level security delegation.
The table that follows provides a sample structure you can follow for an environment:
Folder
level
Folder name
Description
This folder is created for shared data sources. You can create sub-
folders under this root folder as required to provide additional granular
management.
Root
folder
Data_Sources
This folder is created for shared datasets. You can create subfolders un-
der this root folder as required to provide additional granular manage-
ment.
Root
folder
Data_Sets
Root
folder
This is a root folder for reports accessed using a web browser. Plan to
save reports optimized for web rendering in this folder and subfolders.
Custom_WebReports
This is a root folder for subscription-enabled reports. Plan to separate
subscription reports from web reports to provide maximum flexibility
in types of reports and security delegation.
Root
folder
Report_Subscriptions
Subfolder
This is a subfolder for generally accessible reports. It is typically used
to store reports available to all report browsers.
Custom_WebReports\ General
