Security model deployment

We are ready to start building a security model. We have folders and reports. Moreover, we have a list of users. Let's create users:

1. Click on Administration
2. Click on User Manager
3. Choose Everyone and create new users:
   • bi_developer, bi_architect
   • sales_australia, sales_europe, sales_canada, sales_us
   • product_analyst
   • finance_analyst
     

All new users belong to the Everyone group, in other words, they have the Normal Users security role. In other words, they haven't any access. If you want to try to connect using a new user, you will get this message:

The next step is to create groups in order to divide users by their departments. Usually, we should start from groups and then we can create a new user inside of a group. Sometimes a user can belong to several groups. Let's create groups for business departments. According to user access requirements, we will create a Sales group under the MicroStrategy Web Reporter group and Product and Finance groups...