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Assign Capabilities

Capabilities Overview

Capabilities are used to manage users’ access to functionality within Hubble such as being able to export data, build Hierarchies and Time Series, and other functional elements where you may wish to restrict capabilities to trained or authorized users. Capabilities are also used to assign limited functional rights within Administrator to non-administrators. They can be set at the individual user level or at the group level, whether it be Everyone or other groups.

To access and set Capabilities:

  1. Log into your repository if you are not logged in already.
  2. Select Users & Groups from the left-hand panel of Administrator. Expand as needed to view specific groups and/or individuals.
  3. Right-click on the specific level (group or individual user) you wish to set Capabilities for and select Capabilities.
  4. The Capabilities dialog opens with default settings, allowing users to manage the different features within Hubble:
    1. Basic Capabilities are all those set within the main Capabilities dialog.

    2. Advanced Capabilities are accessed by clicking on the Advanced Button in the lower left corner of the Capabilities dialog.
      1. Using the tree structure in the left panel of the Advanced Capabilities dialog, navigate to and select the specific capability you wish to view/edit.
      2. In the upper right corner of the dialog, select the owner or level at which you wish to set the capability.
      3. The settings in the lower right corner of the dialog vary depending on the capability; set these accordingly. Inherit means that the settings are inherited from the group above. The Everyone level inherits the setting from Defaults.
      4. Click Close once the settings have been made.

        For example, navigate to Feature Control> Advanced Tuning Capability, which is used for viewing the SQL statement within Hubble. In the Owner section, we are setting it at the Everyone level. Select Editable = Yes and activate the option to Show the Advanced Tuning Feature:

  5. Click OK to save the settings.
  6. Hubble must be restarted in order for changes to be made.

Basic Capabilities

Basic Capabilities are all those set within the main Capabilities dialog:

  1. Feature Control tab – activate/deactivate any of the listed features for the selected user(s), e.g:
    1. Calculations
    2. Create Links
    3. Export to Excel
    4. Hierarchy
    5. Manage Folders
    6. Permissions
    7. Time Series
    8. Export to Word
  2. PDF/Export tab – these are the default settings for all inquiries, however can be overridden within individual inquiries:
    1. PDF Output Location – the default location for printing and exporting, initially this is %UserDocuments% (this is the logged-in user's My Documents folder).
      1. In recent versions, the location defined here populates in the Export Location field within individual inquiries if the location is blank. (Previously it did not populate but was still used as the default location for printing and exporting.)
      2. Note that %UserDocuments% is the default location for a brand new repository in version 2012.2 and above. If you have an upgraded repository from a previous release and the Print Output Location has been overridden at the Everyone level, that override value remains as the Print Output Location in Administrator. If it was not overridden in the previous release, the new Print Output Location displays as shown above.
      3. For clients who have Hubble installed on a terminal server, it can be changed to be a generic mapped drive that users can change in order to save on their own workstation.
    2. Reports – Logo Image Location – the default location for logo images that can be included in PDF outputs, initially this is the installed directory of Hubble.
    3. Reports – Display Confidential Footnote – set whether the confidential footnote displays on PDF outputs as well as the text of this footnote.
    4. Display Repository Location - set whether the confidential footnote displays on PDF outputs.
    5. Display Profile – set whether to display the data profile being used on PDF outputs.
  3. Budgeting tab – set whether to grant specific Budgeting permissions:
    1. Administrator Permission
    2. Management Permission
    3. Participation
  4. Administration tab - grant specific capabilities within Administrator to specific users/groups:
    1. Features:
      1. Data Sources – Allows access to view the connections and profiles (requires additional permissions to edit).
      2. Reusable Inquiry Objects – Allows access to RIO.
      3. Documents – This should be granted by default for a user’s own folder (requires additional permissions if more folders should be included).
      4. Users and Groups – Allows access to view Users and Groups (requires additional permissions to update or create users/groups).
      5. Import/Export – Allows access to Export to file but used in conjunction with the Repository Import and Export options, the user will be able to use all functionality.
      6. Logging – Allows access to the Logging folder (requires additional permissions to the specific log stream to use the Logging Functionality).
      7. Module Security – Allows access to set Module Security (requires read and update permission to the individual profile as well).
      8. Application Objects – Allows access to the Designer Objects Folder.
    2. Repository:
      1. Backup – Allows access to back up the Object Repository.
      2. Restore – Allows access to restore the Object Repository.
      3. Validate – Allows access to validate the Object Repository (this function checks the repository for errors and attempts to fix them).
      4. Edit – Allows access to edit the Object Repository.
      5. Delete – Allows access to delete the Object Repository.
      6. Import – Allows access to import in Import/Export.
      7. Export – Allows access to export in Import/Export.
    3. Users and Groups:
      1. User Licenses – Grants access to User Licenses. Needs to be used to conjunction with Users and Groups (Features).
      2. Manage License Keys – Grants access to Manage License Keys. Needs to be used to conjunction with Users and Groups (Features).
      3. Synchronize Users – Grants access to Synchronize Users. Needs to be used to conjunction with Users and Groups (Features).
      4. Basic Capabilities – Allows access to Basic Capabilities.
      5. Advanced Capabilities - Allows access to Advanced Capabilities.