User Security System
Ripplestone offers online web site reporting software with user security that allows you to control who can access the web site reporting tool, which Crystal Reports they can run and includes row-level security.
Control access to the web based reporting in one of three ways:
- Forms Authentication - Use the login page that comes with Ripplestone (forcing the user to sign-in when they want to run a Crystal web report).
- Integrated Windows Security - With integrated Windows security, the user is not prompted to sign-in. As long as you have granted that user's Windows User ID access to the Ripplestone database, the user is automatically granted access to web reports.
- Trusted System - Using trusted system a Ripplestone administrator can add the name of a trusted application. From that trusted application a call can be made to Ripplestone that passes the UserID of a valid user. Ripplestone will validate the user and by pass the login form.
After accessing Ripplestone, a user sees only those reports that they have been granted access to. This is achieved using folder-level security. Crystal Reports (.rpt files) are stored on the web server in folders. A user will only see those folders (and thus those web based Crystal Reports) that you have granted them access to.
The security features of Ripplestone have been implemented using security roles (similar in concept to Windows groups). Individual users are assigned to roles. Roles are then granted access to folders.