Dynamic Dimension Security in Analysis Services based on User and Datasource Dimension

  • Hello I have an Question to Dynamic Dimension Security in AS.

    I have a following Problem. I want to Secure Dimension Members based on User Account and Datasource where the data comes from.

    I have a Source Table which contains keys for all sources where the data comes from and I have User Table with Users. n-Users can belong to one Datasource. And I have Project Table, which contains a Datasource Key (1:1 relationship).

    Now what I want is to create a Role to secure Project Dimensions Members depending on User and Datasource.

    Example.

    User "Paul" has acces to "Source A", now when the User "Paul" want to use the Project Dimension he should only see the Projects which come from "Source A".

    I Have:

    User Dimension Table

    User ID | Username

    1 | Paul

    2 | Peter

    Datasource Dimension Table

    Source ID | Source

    A | Source A

    B | Source B

    UserDatasourceFact

    UserID | SourceID

    1 | A

    2 | A

    I have Project Dimension Table:

    Project ID | Source

    P1 | A

    P2 | A

    P3 | B

    Based on this Data.

    User "Paul" should only see Project "P1" and "P2".

    Any Ideas how it is possible to realize this without to build Mapping Table between User and Project.

    I created a User, Datasource and Proejct Dimension. Related the User and Datasource Dimension via UserDatasourceFact. Then I related the Datasource and Project Dimension via Datasource ID. And I tried this Query:

    SELECT

    [Project Dim].[Project Title].Children on 0

    FROM (

    SELECT

    Exists([Mandant Dim].[Mandant Name].CHILDREN,

    [User Dim].[Username].&[Peter], "User Mandat Fact") on 0

    FROM [Security Concept])

    But it returns all Projects.

    Thanks in advance.

    I would appreciate your help.

  • Hi,

    Should you have put the second expression of the Exists() into brackets?

    SELECT

    [Project Dim].[Project Title].Children on 0

    FROM (

    SELECT

    Exists([Mandant Dim].[Mandant Name].CHILDREN,

    {[User Dim].[Username].&[Peter], "User Mandat Fact"}) on 0

    FROM [Security Concept])

    Second, what about this data

    UserDatasourceFact

    UserID | SourceID

    1 | A

    2 | A

    "Paul" and "Peter" see same group of projects?

    Regards,

    Igor

    Igor Micev,My blog: www.igormicev.com

  • Hi Igor,

    thank you for your Response.

    @Should you have put the second expression of the Exists() into brackets?

    This Query was only a try to filter the Projects based on the returned Datasources. I am not sure wether the query is correct.

    Yes Peter and Paul have acces to the same Datasource. But they both should only see P1 and P2, because only this Projects comes from Datasource A.

  • UserDatasourceFact

    UserID | SourceID

    1 | A

    2 | A

    I have Project Dimension Table:

    Project ID | Source

    P1 | A

    P2 | A

    P3 | B

    I am wondering if the projects table can serve as a fact table that contains source and user attributes.

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