Page 3 - Contents
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 3 Contents Contents Preface Maximizing Your Information Resources 5 Information resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 5 - preface
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Page 6 - Overview
6 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Maximizing Your Information Resources Overview Information, services, and solutions The Business Objects business intelligence solution is supported by thousands of pages of documentation, available from the products, on the Internet, on CD, and by...
Page 7 - Information resources
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 7 Information resources Information resources Whatever your Business Objects profile, we can help you quickly access the documentation and other information you need. Where do I start? Below are a few suggested starting points; there is a summary of ...
Page 8 - How can I get the most recent documentation?; Send us your feedback
8 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Maximizing Your Information Resources ! ! ! ! Multimedia Are you new to Business Objects? Are you upgrading from a previous release or expanding, for example, from our desktop to our web solution? Try one of our multimedia quick tours or Getting St...
Page 9 - Services; How we can support you?; Having an issue with the product?
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 9 Services Services A global network of Business Objects technology experts provides customer support, education, and consulting to ensure maximum business intelligence benefit to your business. How we can support you? Business Objects offers custome...
Page 10 - Useful addresses at a glance
10 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Maximizing Your Information Resources Useful addresses at a glance Address Content Business Objects Documentation www.businessobjects.com/services/documentation.htm Overview of Business Objects documentation. Links to Online Customer Support, Docu...
Page 12 - About this guide; Audience
12 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Maximizing Your Information Resources About this guide This guide describes how to use Supervisor over the Web. Audience This guide is intended for administrators who manage user and group accounts. Conventions used in this guide The conventions u...
Page 13 - chapter; Getting Started
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Page 15 - What is Supervisor over the Web?; What can you do with Supervisor over the Web?
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 15 What is Supervisor over the Web? What is Supervisor over the Web? Supervisor over the Web allows you to manage users and groups via a web browser. You create a Business Objects repository using Supervisor. Then you use either Supervisor or Supervi...
Page 16 - What you cannot do with Supervisor over the Web
16 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Getting Started What you cannot do with Supervisor over the Web You cannot do the following with Supervisor over the Web: • create repositories • manage resources, categories, Broadcast Agents, and security commands • perform scan, compact, and re...
Page 18 - Installing and configuring Supervisor over the
18 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Getting Started Installing and configuring Supervisor over the Web You need to have a licence for Supervisor to be able to install and run Supervisor over the Web. Supervisor over the Web is supported in a JSP environment and requires an applicati...
Page 20 - Running Supervisor over the Web
20 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Getting Started Running Supervisor over the Web Once you have installed and configured Supervisor over the Web, you need to do the following to access Supervisor over the Web 1. Start the application and web servers. For information on configuring...
Page 22 - Logging out of Supervisor over the Web
22 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Getting Started Logging out of Supervisor over the Web When you have finished using Supervisor over the Web, log out of the product instead of just closing your browser. This enables the Login Server to be refreshed with the changes that you perfo...
Page 23 - Using the online help
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 23 Using the online help Using the online help The Supervisor over the Web online help provides you with a description of Supervisor over the Web and complete instructions for using the product. To access the Supervisor over the Web online help, clic...
Page 25 - Managing Groups
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Page 27 - Using the Group Management pane
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 27 Using the Group Management pane Using the Group Management pane When you log in to Supervisor over the Web, the Group Management pane's subgroup tree shows the groups to which you belong as a supervisor and their subgroups. If you are a general su...
Page 28 - Navigating in the subgroup tree
28 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Groups NOTE You are not allowed to perform actions on: • your own user instances. When your user instance appears in a user list, the check box is not displayed. • a general supervisor instance if you are not logged in as a general superv...
Page 31 - Adding a user
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 31 Adding a user Adding a user A user can belong to more than one group. Each occurrence of the same user in different groups is an "instance." Using Supervisor over the Web, you can add an instance of an existing user to a group. A user adde...
Page 32 - Creating a new group
32 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Groups Creating a new group The root group, which is created in the repository, represents your organization. All other groups you create are subgroups of the root group. To create a new group in a selected group: 1. In the Current group ...
Page 33 - Renaming a group
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 33 Renaming a group Renaming a group To rename the current group: 1. In the Current group section click Rename . The Rename group “<group name>” pane appears. 2. In the Enter new group name box, type the new name of the group. Group names are u...
Page 34 - Moving a group
34 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Groups Moving a group Using Supervisor over the Web, you can move a group if: • it is not the root group • you are a General Supervisor or the group is within your scope To move a selected group: 1. In the Current group section click Move...
Page 35 - Deleting a group
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 35 Deleting a group Deleting a group Using Supervisor over the Web, you can delete a group if: • it is not the root group • you are a General Supervisor or the group is within your scope • the group does not have a Broadcast Agent assigned to it Broa...
Page 37 - Managing Users
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Page 39 - Using the User Management pane
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 39 Using the User Management pane Using the User Management pane When you select a user in the Group Management pane, the User Management pane appears. The User Management pane contains the following sections: • location of current user Indicates the...
Page 41 - Understanding user profiles
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 41 Understanding user profiles Understanding user profiles Supervisor and Supervisor over the Web offer several user profiles. The user profile determines what products a user can use: • General supervisor (all products) • Supervisor (all products bu...
Page 43 - Creating a new user
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 43 Creating a new user Creating a new user A user can belong to more than one group. Each occurrence of the same user in different groups is an ‘instance’. When the first instance is created for a user, it has the following default parameters: To edi...
Page 45 - Adding to a group
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 45 Adding to a group Adding to a group Using Supervisor over the Web, you can use Add to group to add a user to a group if: • the group or user is within your scope • the instance is not your own • you are trying to add a user that is not a General S...
Page 46 - Editing user properties
46 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Users Editing user properties Using Supervisor over the Web you can perform the following actions on user properties: • Changing a user profile • Changing login properties • Setting the object security level • Setting the identification s...
Page 48 - Changing login properties
48 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Users Changing login properties The Disable login and Enable offline login options are in the Password & Security section of the User Management pane. ! ! ! ! Enabling and disabling login The Disable login property grants or denies pe...
Page 49 - Setting the object security level; Changing password settings
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 49 Editing user properties Setting the object security level Objects are components in Business Objects universes that make data accessible to users. Their security level is defined by the designers who create them. By default, their security level i...
Page 51 - Setting the identification strategy
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 51 Editing user properties Setting the identification strategy Supervisor over the Web allows you to set the identification, or password checking, strategy for a user. To control the password checking strategy associated with a user: 1. Select the us...
Page 52 - Changing a password
52 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Users Changing a password To change a password: 1. Select the user instance in the Group Management pane. The User Management pane appears for that user. 2. Click Change password . The Change password for user “<user name>” pane app...
Page 53 - Renaming a user
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 53 Renaming a user Renaming a user To rename a user: 1. Select the user instance in the Group Management pane. The User Management pane appears for that user. 1. Click Rename . The Rename user “<user name>” pane appears. 2. In the Enter new use...
Page 54 - Deleting a user
54 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Users Deleting a user You can delete the user permanently from the repository, which removes all instances of the user in all groups, and also deletes from the repository any documents that have been sent only to that user. For informatio...
Page 55 - Removing a user from a group
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 55 Removing a user from a group Removing a user from a group When a user belongs to more than one group, the instance of the user in any one group can be removed without permanently deleting the user from the repository. You cannot remove the last in...
Page 57 - Managing Multiple Users
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Page 59 - Selecting users
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 59 Selecting users Selecting users The Users in group section in the Group Management pane displays the user instances in the current group and its subgroup. To perform actions on users, you need to select their instances. Click the checkbox next to ...
Page 61 - Editing multiple user properties
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 61 Editing multiple user properties Editing multiple user properties After selecting multiple users in the Users in group section of the Group Management pane, you can edit their properties. 1. In the Users in group section of the Group Management pa...
Page 63 - Adding multiple users to a group
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 63 Adding multiple users to a group Adding multiple users to a group To add multiple users to a group: 1. In the Users in group section of the Group Management pane, select the users that you want to add to a group. For information on selecting users...
Page 64 - Removing multiple users from a group
64 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Multiple Users Removing multiple users from a group To remove more than one user from a group: 1. Navigate to the group that contains the user instances you want to remove. 2. In the Users in group section of the Group Management pane, se...
Page 65 - Deleting multiple users
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 65 Deleting multiple users Deleting multiple users This operation deletes ALL instances of the selected users in the repository. If you are unsure of the affiliations of any of the users, remove them from the current group instead. See Removing a use...
Page 66 - Using the search options; Searching by name or wildcard
66 Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web Managing Multiple Users Using the search options By default, the Group Management pane displays users in the current group. Use the search options to narrow this list or search for a user in the current group and its subgroups. To use these option...
Page 67 - Searching by subgroup; Searching for disabled users
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 67 Using the search options Searching by subgroup To search for users in the parent group as well as the subgroups: 1. In the search options, select Include subgroups . 2. In the box next to the Search button, type a name or wildcard. For more inform...
Page 69 - Index
Supervisor’s Guide: Using Supervisor over the Web 69 Index Index A adding a user to a group 31, 45 B Business Objects consulting services 9, 11documentation 8Documentation Supply Store 7support services 9training services 9, 11 C changing password 52configuring supervisor over the web 18 consultants...
