Managing Users

How to:

Users permitted to Manage Users can manage user views (public, group, and personal) from the View Builder. The Manage Users option allows you to view, update the content of a personal page, and change the appearance of their Dashboard views.

The following image shows the Manage Users Window.

Manage Users Window

The Manage Users window provides the following information:


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Procedure: How to Edit the Content of Users
  1. From the View Builder, click Manage Users.
  2. Select the user you want to edit content for and click Edit Content.

    The Content window opens.

  3. Edit content as necessary.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Click Manage Users to return to the Manage Users window.

Note: You can only edit content for one user at a time.


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Procedure: How to Reassign the Views of Users
  1. From the View Builder, click Manage Users.
  2. Select one or more users to reassign their views.
  3. Click Reassign.
  4. Select the new view from the drop-down list.
  5. If you want to replace user content with the content from the new view, select the Replace User Content with View Content check box.

    When you replace content, the users still have access to all of the domains (and the items in those domains) they are assigned to. Only Dashboard-specific items, such as content pages and content blocks, are replaced. The Favorites and Recent lists of users are cleared when you select the Replace User Content with View Content check box.

  6. Click Submit.

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Procedure: How to Remove Users From Dashboard

This procedure only removes the user from Dashboard, not Managed Reporting. If a user is accessing Dashboard when you remove them using the View Builder Manage Users page, a HTTP 500 error is displayed in the browser window. If the user accesses Dashboard again, the user will appear in the Manage Users list again.

  1. From the View Builder, click Manage Users.
  2. Select one or more users that you want to remove from Dashboard.
  3. Click Remove.
  4. Click OK in the confirmation pop-up dialog box.

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