Tranport role from Dev to Prod without overwriting role menu

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We have users who have saved BW workbooks in the roles. They appear as transactions in the role menu. Now when we are transporting the roles the role menu is getting overwritten and all the workbooks are no more in the Role menu and so not visible to the users.

How can we transport the BW roles without overwriting the Role menu ? Please help

Thanks a million

Sunil Kumar

[Former Member]

For damage control you can give them a seperate role for maintaining the menu to add their workbooks, if that is to be done in production...

Which release are you on?

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

We are on BI 7.0.

[Former Member]

Sunil,

Are you allowing users to save workbooks to a role directly in production to share? If that is the case you should consider having a simple "shell role" which doesnt contain authorizations but rather a mechinism to saving workbooks too.

For your role with authorization and workbooks/queries that go through the normal SDLC use the standard transport process therefore never overwritting the role used in production.

Thanks,

Matt

[arpan_paik]

 How can we transport the BW roles without overwriting the Role menu ? Please help 

I doubt whether this is possible or not.... Well for instant damage control you look in change history to find out what was there in menu before?? And put them back as it was before.

For a permanent solution it is already suggested in earlier posts... that is to have a menu role concept used only for query, work book saving pupose and these are not getting transported in any case.

Arpan