Chapter 11. Security
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Section Access gotchas
- Blocking user access to a field using OMIT
- Making all values available to Admins
Introduction
Security in QlikView is both simple and powerful.
It is as simple as connecting a user to the data. By connecting the user to the data, we restrict access to the document and we can also restrict the user to only view the data that they are connected to.
While it is a pretty simple setup, there are a few things that are useful to know to ease the implementation.
In the following exercises, we will use the USERID field to allow us to easily test different users. This is a QlikView user, which will be used less in live implementations than the NTNAME, which links to either Windows usernames ...
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