Assigning Privileges for MicroStrategy Web

MicroStrategy Web products are available in three different editions, each having an associated set of privileges. The number of users assignable to any one edition is based on your license agreement.

MicroStrategy provides these editions for MicroStrategy Web products:

• Web Professional or Web Professional
• Web Analyst or Web Analyst
• Web Reporter or Web Reporter

The privileges available in each edition are listed in the List of Privileges section. You can also print a report of all privileges assigned to each user based on license type; to do this, see Audit Your System for the Proper Licenses.

A user assigned to an edition is entitled to a complete set, or identified subset, of the privileges listed for that edition.

If a user is assigned to multiple user groups, the privileges of those groups are additive, and determine the edition usage of that particular user. For example, if a user is a member of both the Finance and the Accounting user groups, privileges for that user are equivalent to the cumulative set of privileges assigned to those two groups.

One privilege, Web Administration, can be assigned to any edition of Web user. This privilege allows the user to access the Web Administrator page to manage server connections, and to access the Project defaults link on the Preferences page to set defaults for all users.

The MicroStrategy security model enables you to set up user groups that can have subgroups within them, thus creating a hierarchy. The following applies to the creation of user subgroups:

• A child subgroup automatically inherits privileges assigned to its parent group.
• A child subgroup can be assigned other privileges in addition to inherited privileges.

User groups corresponding to the three editions of MicroStrategy Web products are predefined with the appropriate privilege sets. These user groups are available under the User Group folder in the Administration folder for your project.

You need project administration privileges to view and modify user group definitions.

See your license agreement as you determine how each user is assigned to a given privilege set. MicroStrategy Web products provide three Web editions (Professional, Analyst, Reporter), defined by the privilege set assigned to each.

Assigning privileges outside those designated for each edition changes the user's edition. For example, if you assign to a user in a Web Reporter group a privilege available only to a Web Analyst, MicroStrategy considers the user to be a Web Analyst user.

Within any edition, privileges can be removed for specific users or user groups. For more information about security and privileges, see Setting Up User Security.

License Manager enables you to perform a self-audit of your user base and, therefore, helps you understand how your licenses are being used. For more information, see Audit and Update Licenses.