Restrict User to Create Custom Reports

[Former Member]

Hi

Can we restrict a user from creating custom reports in SPM, If yes how? We want that user can does not see the Create New Report Option

Regards

Neel

[Former Member]

Hi

Could you also tell, can we restrict OOTB reports specfic to a role. Say some out of box reports should be visible to procurement executive role and some to Commodity manager?

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Neel

[Former Member]

HI Rohit

I understand that Custom Reports is a key functionality of SPM but our client feels that this option should not be available to most of the users.They want the users to see the reports which the Administrator wants them to see.

Is is technically possible? If yes, please let me know how it can be done. It would be of great help

Regards

Neel

[Former Member]

Hi Neel

There is no mechanism in SPM to disallow ad-hoc reporting completely, since the empowerment of ad-hoc reporting is one of the biggest advantages in SPM. Users can only be restricted at folder level based on ACLs.

Hope that answers your question.

Regards

Rajesh

[Former Member]

HI,

If the dashboars and reports for users are already so well defined, wouldn't offline Briefing Books give them the same information?

Also, if ad-hoc reporting and business user empowerment is not what you are looking for, it would also be easy to use SAP BusinessObjects BI tools, such as Xcelsius, on top of SPM data to provide those centrally defined dashboards and reports.

Finally, BW authorizations are very flexible and comprehensive. You can limit a user to a few dimensions on which he can drill down, to certain Key-Figures, to specific levels of the hierarchy. If you don't have such authorizations in place and want to control instead the selections the user can do, then using Xcelsius on top of SPM could give you that possibility.

Regards!

Ricardo Vieira

[Former Member]

Hi

But Cant we somehow restrict the user so he only sees Standard OOTB reports and no other folders at all. We want to disable the Custom Reports functionality for some users

Regards

Neel

[Former Member]

Hi Neel,

Granting SAP roles will only give access to the SAP folder. Any new folders you create will be associated with role and they will have to be granted separately.

Secondly, ability to ad-hoc reporting is a huge functionality. So not sure why you do not want users to create new reports.

Regards,

Rohit

[Former Member]

Hi Neel

There is no restriction on creating New Reports for Private and Public Folders.

How ever group folders can have limitation on who can create reports in them.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_spm21/helpdata/en/ad/78ccfe0fe0414bbea93357b4377d4d/frameset.htm

Regards

Rajesh