topic Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access in QlikView

Difference between USER and ADMIN access

prat1507 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT

HI All

Need a clarification on a simple thing.

A person with ADMIN privileges has access to all data in the app. A person with USER privileges can only access data as defined in the security table.

The above text is written on Qlik Help, though I have noticed that both the accesses behave similarly on the access point. How does this justify the above statement? and what are the other differences?

Regards

Pratyush

Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access

tresB — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:44:40 GMT

On access point an ADMIN user is effectively a USER. The access privileges difference would usually can notice in qv desktop environment. Otherwise, an admin could also be restricted to data like a USER.

Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access

ganapati_h — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 07:30:09 GMT

@prat1507 what you have mentioned is for access to data within the app. E.g Sales dashboard if you give sales head admin access he/she can access the entire data to app. For Region Manager is you give access to western region he/she will be able to see only west data

Who sees the app and streams are governed by security rules.

Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access

prat1507 — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 07:32:29 GMT

HI Tresesco

Thanks for the clarification but I'm facing one issue, where I try to login as ADMIN and I'm able to view the dashboard whereas while I try to login as USER, it says access denied. Can you help me with a probable reason to this.

Regards

Pratyush

Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access

tresB — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:12:26 GMT

One possibility could be that the application might not have relevant data for the specific user. Try unchecking 'Strict exclusion' on document properties.

Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access

prat1507 — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:16:24 GMT

The user has relevant data points, I think I need to provide NTNAME instead of USERID, as I'm specifying the ids as domainname/username. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Regards
Pratyush

Re: Difference between USER and ADMIN access

tresB — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:49:28 GMT

That's right. Nonetheless, the same is applicable for admin user as well.