MicroStrategy ONE

Create New Users and Groups

Administrators can create new users and groups.

  • You must have the System Administrator or Application Administrator role.
  • You must Manage Environments
  • Users
  • Groups

Create a New User

A user is an account in MicroStrategy, which represents a person who uses the MicroStrategy features. For example, a user may be someone who creates and owns objects, or someone who opens and analyzes the data in reports and documents within MicroStrategy. The MicroStrategy security model is built around the concept of a user.

To work with MicroStrategy, users must have a user account created for them, which defines what access privileges they have, their login ID and password to log into the system, and so on. Users are defined in the MicroStrategy metadata and exist across projects. You do not have to define users for every project you create in a single metadata repository.

For additional information on users within the MicroStrategy system, see the System Administration Help.

  1. Open the Workstation window with the Navigation pane in smart mode.
  2. In the Navigation pane, click Users and Groups.
  3. Select an Environment from the upper-left drop-down.
  4. Next to All Users, click Create a new User .

  5. Enter user information in the Create New User dialog.

    Enter the following information:

    1. Login, Full name and Email address of the new user, and a Description.

      2. The login ID is limited to 50 characters.

    2. Specify a password.

    3. Specify whether a user can change the password themselves or must change the password at their next logon.

    4. Verify Active User is selected.

    Select the groups to which you want to assign the user. The user inherits privileges from the group, as well as any security filter restrictions from security filters assigned to the group.

    1. Click Manage User Group to add a new user group. Select or search for the group to which you want to add the user.

    2. Click Update.

      3. The Everyone group cannot be deleted or unmapped from the user account.

    Assign the security roles for a user. Security roles enable you to assign a unique set of privileges to users on a per project basis. They are created and maintained at the project source level and assigned to users at the project level.

    1. Select or search a project and check all the security roles that the user is required to have for that project.

    2. You can select different security roles for different projects based on the user profile.

      3. The user privileges you grant may be broadened or extended depending on the groups to which the user is assigned.

    See Configure User Authentication for more information.

    You must finish creating the user before you can assign security filters.

    Specify the maximum storage space dedicated to each user in a project. The default user storage quota is project default set on the project configuration and applies to all users who have access to the project. For more information, see Dataset Storage Quota.

    Add FTP, file, mobile, or printer addresses for the user if the user is subscribing to report and document delivery, or others are subscribing this user to deliveries. Adding an address to the user provides a location to deliver reports and documents for this user. This section displays a list of delivery locations associated with the user. These are locations where this user can receive subscribed reports and documents. You can add new delivery locations or delete existing delivery locations for the user.

    1. Click Add Address to add a new delivery address for the user.

    2. In the Type column, choose a delivery type. The available types depend on the transmitters configured by your administrator.

    3. In the Delivery Device column, chose a delivery device. The available devices depend on the devices configured by your administrator.

    4. Add a Name and Address for the delivery address. You can choose to add this information as the default for all deliveries.

  6. Click Save.

    Users receive an email containing their credentials and an invitation to join the environment via Web or a mobile device.

Create a New User Group

  1. Open the Workstation window with the Navigation pane in smart mode.

  2. In the Navigation pane, click Users and Groups.

  3. Select an Environment from the upper-left drop-down.
  4. Next to User Groups, click Create a new User Group .

  5. Enter user information in the Create New Group dialog.

    See Configure Group Authentication for more information.

    You must finish creating the user group before you can assign security filters.

  6. Click Create Group