Contributor and Reviewer Access in Model Manager

Contributor Access in Model Manager

In Dynamic Planning, Contributors have always had access to the Model menu in Excel and they now have access to the Model Manager on the Web.

• Contributors can only see the models they have access to. On the models for which they have access, they can see all the artifacts.

• In Model Relationship layout, Contributors can see the models they have access to and also the source and target models regardless of whether they have access to the source and target models.

  • For example, if the Contributor has access to Model A which is being sourced by Model S and loading the data to Model T and the Contributor only has access to Model A, in the Model Relationship layout, he will still see all three of the models as that gives a clear relationship and dependency view to the Contributor.

• Contributors cannot perform any action on models for which they do not have access but can see them in Model Relationship layout.

• On Dimension hierarchy management, if a Contributor has access to all dimension members for a given dimension in a given model, then he will have the option to update, add, delete, or modify properties for that dimension. If the Contributor does not have access to all dimension members for a given dimension in a given model then he cannot make any changes to the dimension hierarchy.

  • For example, if a Contributor has access only to Q1 2015 on Time dimension in Model A, then he cannot make any changes to Time dimension on Model A. However, he can see all dimension members for the Time dimension. If a Power user wants to enable Contributors to make changes to the dimension, then Contributors should not be assigned with any dimension security on the dimensions in the Model Permissions setup.

• If Manage, Navigation Access says Yes for Contributor access to Model Dimension:

  • Contributors can use the Dimension Browser to view, edit, delete, and save dimension members they have access to within the Model.

• If Manage, Navigation Access says Yes for Contributor access to Model Attribute:

  • Contributors can use the Dimension Browser to view, edit, delete, map and save attributes with dimension members they have access to within the Model.

• If Manage, Navigation Access says Yes for Contributor access to Model Setup:

  • Contributors can use the More menu to view model activity, model statistics, and model artifacts on models the Contributor has access to.

  • Contributors can edit models they have access to.

  • Contributors can add new models.

Reviewer Access in Model Manager

In Dynamic Planning, Reviewers have not traditionally had access to the Model menu. Now they have limited access to see models in the Model Manager.

• Reviewers can only see the models they have access to.
• Reviewers cannot perform any model activities (such as clear model, lock model, generate model, update the hierarchy, see model statistics, or see model activity).
• Reviewers can see the models and the views and reports associated with them so long as the Reviewer has been granted access to those models, views, and reports.
• Reviewers do not have access to the Data Relationship view.