Add or remove permission to an application in the Business Data Catalog
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2008-08-01
Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:
You have read the topic Manage authorization for the Business Data Catalog.
Your system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Important
Administrators must have View Only permission to the Shared Services Provider (SSP) administration site, and must have the Set Permissions permission enabled.
Add or remove permission to an application in the Business Data Catalog
Use the following procedure to add or remove permission to an application in the Business Data Catalog.
Add or remove permission to an application in the Business Data Catalog
On the Shared Services Administration home page, in the Business Data Catalog section, click View applications.
On the Business Data Catalog Applications page, click the name of the application.
On the View Application: Application Name page, in the Application Information section, click Manage Permissions.
On the Manage Permissions: Application Name page, click Add Users/Groups.
Note
If a user or group is already in the list on this page, select the check box for that user or group, and then click Modify Permissions of Selected Users. You can also click the user or group name in the list, or select check boxes for two or more users or groups to modify permissions for multiple users or groups.
On the Add Users/Groups: Application Name page, in the Choose Users section, type the name of the users and groups that you want to add in the form domain\user.
Note
On the Modify Permissions: Application Name page, the user or group is already selected.
In the Choose Permissions section, select the permissions that you want for the added users and groups, as follows:
To enable administrators to import, update, and delete application definitions for this application, select Edit. Users who have this permission can use the View Application: Application Name page to manage the application definition for this application, and view the list of entities for this application. If the Edit permission is also enabled at the entity level, they can view and edit the properties of entities in this list.
To enable developers to execute method instances for entities associated with this application, select Execute. To execute method instances for an entity, an account must have the Execute permission required for the Business Data Catalog, the application containing the entity, and the business data entity.
To enable information workers to select business data from this application in SharePoint list columns, Web Parts, and other Web clients, select Select in Clients.
To enable Business Data Catalog administrators to manage permissions to this application, select Set Permissions.
To remove a permission, clear the associated check box.
If you want to copy all permissions at the application level to all of the entities for that application, click Copy all permissions to descendants.
Note
This overwrites any existing permissions for the entities associated with this application.
Click Save.