Reports accessible by group or user

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Reports accessible by group or user

Fishbarnriots

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October 6, 2008 at 6:33 am

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Hi,
I am often asked to add a new user to reporting services with access to the same reports as an existing user. is there a way of viewing which reports a specific user is able to view and to then add a new user with the same priviledges??

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dva2007 SSCertifiable Points: 7707 More actions · Answer 1

well we have something written into Microsoft access where you can add users and select group etc. you can think something like that if you working for big organization.

Fishbarnriots SSCrazy Points: 2568 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for the reply, I think that maybe I did not explain what I am trying to achieve very clearly.

Within reporting services we have a suite of reports, these are located in folders dependent upon the content of the report and the indended audience.

The users are given access to a folder or folders and the reports within the folders.

What I a am trying to achieve is to be able to add a new user to reporting services with access to folders and reports based upon those held by an existing user. Or to view the folder and reports accessible by a specific user.

I suspect that this information is contained in the report server database.

Glen SSCertifiable Points: 6737 More actions · Answer 3

On the ReportServer database which is accompanies any installation of SSRS, there is a handy stored procedure:

use reportserver

go

exec GetPolicy @ItemName=N'/rootpath/ReportName', @AuthType=1

It will return then an XML in a column [XML description].

Node GroupUserName will contain names of users assigned to a particular report.

Fishbarnriots SSCrazy Points: 2568 More actions · Answer 4

I have managed to get the informatio I need by using

select

u.username

,case

c.type

when 1 then 'Folder'

when 2 then 'Report'

when 3 then 'Graphic/Data'

when 4 then 'Linked Report'

when 5 then 'Data Source'

else convert(varchar(5), c.type)

end

, c.path, c.name from

policyuserrole pur

join users u

on pur.userid = u.userid

join catalog c

on pur.policyid = c.policyid

where u.username = 'rogsav'

and c.hidden = 0

order by c.path,c.name