We opened this chapter with a set of recipes on how to manage users in Pentaho BA Server. Now, in this recipe, we are going to see how to create a new role and how to associate it with a predefined set of operation permissions. Operation permissions are the set of things a user can or cannot do if they would be a member of this role. That said, the role is a way to associate a set of users with the same collection of operation permissions.
The following steps will show us how to define a new role and associate it with a set of Operation Permissions:
From the Users / Roles entry of the left menu, select the Manage Roles tab.
Click on the plus (+) icon in the upper-right corner of the Roles list and the New Role dialog box will open, as shown in the following screenshot:
In the Name field, type the name of role we are going to create. This field is mandatory. As soon as we start filling the field with some characters, the OK button appears.
If we click on the...