Controlling Access to VDL, JavaScript and Tableau Views

An app can optionally specify a list of authorities that the user must possess to access a view.

You can specify multiple authorities, separated by whitespace. The authorities required can be either standard authorities (such as SCENARIO_EDIT) or custom authorities.

Note: To access a view, the user must have all of the authorities listed (though not necessarily in the same authority group) .

The following example shows a JavaScript view that requires the custom PAYGRADE_CEO authority:

<client>
    <view-group title="Main">
        <html-view title="Strategy Dashboard" authorities="PAYGRADE_CEO"
                   path="index.html"/>
    </view-group>
</client>

This example shows VDL views with standard and custom authorities:

<client>
    <view-group title="Main">
        <vdl-view title="Strategy Dashboard" authorities="PAYGRADE_CEO" path="dash1.vdl"/>
        <vdl-view title="Control Panel" authorities="SCENARIO_EDIT" path="panel.vdl"/>
    </view-group>
</client>

An app can specify the custom authorities it depends on in the companion file:

<model-companion
        xmlns="http://www.fico.com/xpress/optimization-modeler/model-companion" version="5.1">
	<custom-authorities>
		<custom-authority>PAYGRADE_CEO</custom-authority>
		<custom-authority>PAYGRADE_MANAGER</custom-authority>
		<custom-authority>PAYGRADE_ENGINEER</custom-authority>
	</custom-authorities>
</model-companion>

If they do not already exist, custom authorities are created when the app is loaded, or via the developer update option.

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