Hide columns according to a user
Hi guys,
I'm trying to achieve a very specific feature and I don't know if Yellowfin will allow me to accomplish, so I'm opening this topic so I can have some help.
What I'm trying to do is to create a report with some fields, but one of these fields are values financial, and those can only be seem by managers. Other users cannot see these values by any means.
I was looking for some data about this, but I found only "access level" feature. The problem with these "access level", is that we can hide the column to some users, but if a user who has access creates a report using these columns, the users who has no access then will eventualy see anyway. The same happen with already created reports.
Can this be done in Yellowfin? Is there a way to hide a column to specific users even if the report is already created?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Renato,
the behaviour you described of Yellowfin with the "Access Level" feature is the expected behaviour - it is not a bug.
In older Yellowfin versions there used to be the following description in the View Builder UI:
In other words, if User B edits a view that contains column C that is restricted to him/her, then User B won't see column C at all in the view. However, if User A who has no column restriction creates a report with column C in it, then when User B runs the report User B will still see column C, although User B will not be able to edit the report.
And to answer your question of "Can this be done"? No, I don't know of any way to hide a column (in a report) to specific users even if the report is already created.
So I guess you will have to make 2 sets of reports, a private one with the financial values for the managers only, and a public report with no financial values for non-managers.
regards,
David
Hi Renato,
the behaviour you described of Yellowfin with the "Access Level" feature is the expected behaviour - it is not a bug.
In older Yellowfin versions there used to be the following description in the View Builder UI:
In other words, if User B edits a view that contains column C that is restricted to him/her, then User B won't see column C at all in the view. However, if User A who has no column restriction creates a report with column C in it, then when User B runs the report User B will still see column C, although User B will not be able to edit the report.
And to answer your question of "Can this be done"? No, I don't know of any way to hide a column (in a report) to specific users even if the report is already created.
So I guess you will have to make 2 sets of reports, a private one with the financial values for the managers only, and a public report with no financial values for non-managers.
regards,
David
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