Controlling Access to Projects

The previous sections describe how to configure the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE and IIS, to control which Windows accounts have access to Visual Discovery Server AE and all projects published there (while using HTTPS protocol). To further control which users have access to which projects, you can create multiple subdirectories in the Projects directory, and create a web.config file for each. The file specifies the group of users with permission to access the project(s) contained there. The format for the web.config file, is described in the online Help topic, Deployment and WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE/Security.

Note: All users allowed any access to the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Server AE can view the full directory of projects, but only those given access to a particular subdirectory can open the projects there.

To control project access, the use of HTTPS protocol is not required. Configure IIS for Windows Authentication by disabling Anonymous Authentication, and edit the web.config file in the top-level Visual Discovery Server AE directory as described above, to uncomment bindings for Windows authentication.


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