Actuate BIRT Designer supports the simulation of viewing reports with data security. You can test data security in a report without having to publish the report to iServer, log in with different user credentials, run the report and verify its output.
To test data security from the perspective of a user designing a dashboard in BIRT 360 or a report in BIRT Studio, you need to run tests on the iServer. The testing procedure entails the following steps:
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Launching the dashboard design tool or BIRT Studio, and using the data object as a source of data for the dashboard or report.
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Using Actuate BIRT Designer, build a report that uses a secure data object store (.data) as its data source. For information about this procedure, see Chapter 4, “Accessing data in a data object.”
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When you finish building the report, choose Run→View Report with Data Security, and select the output format in which to view the report.
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In Run Report with Data Security Enabled, shown in Figure 23-28, type a security ID specified in an ACL in the data object. For example:
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