permissions on a custom DataView

Arlette Slachmuylder

Hi - I have built a custom dataform object that takes a parameter to determine what to show. However, I wanted to put it on several different pages - and have the permissions on each page be visible to different roles. I am not getting a way from support to do this. I can set different tasks with different permissions, but if someone shares the url directly, it seems like anyone can see any page, since I need to make the dataform available to all groups. When I asked support, their only suggestion was to use expressions to control visibility of the tab, but it seems those expressions cannot use roles in the different definitions. Does anyone have a different idea? Thanks!

Here is what I had posed to support:

I have 3 pages that all use the same dataform. I want the permissions for each page to be different, i.e. group A can get to page A, group B to page B and group C to page C. I can see that I need to set the permissions for the dataform to be accessible to groups A, B, C and that I can set up 3 tasks and set the permissions on each task. But, if someone shares the url to page A to someone in group B, I don't see how to prevent group B from not being able to see the page? The dataform differs on each page by its parameter settings.

Chris Whisenhunt

@Arlette Slachmuylder is the only difference on the pages, the parameter being passed in on the data form? You can create a privilege spec and handle this sort of thing pretty easily, but the architecture behind the solution is what makes this easy to understand or more complex. Happy to discuss.

Arlette Slachmuylder

@Chris Whisenhunt
Yes, just the parameter. I was trying to create a generic powerbi embed object where all that is passed in is the report id - but maybe it also needs to pass in some role ids as well. Just trying not to go way outside of what the security UI displays - so not sure what is the least cryptic solution.

Chris Whisenhunt

@Arlette Slachmuylder let me whip up a sample of this and send it your way.

Arlette Slachmuylder

@Chris Whisenhunt
Thank you!