Working with Attributes

The Manage menu only appears if you have an administrative role, such as ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR (for the all editions) and ROLE_SUPERUSER (for commercial editions). In commercial editions with a single organization, the Manage > Server Settings menu can be made available to the jasperadmin account by assigning it ROLE_SUPERUSER; otherwise, only superuser can access the Server Settings page.

Attributes can be defined for each JasperReports Server user, organization, or server instance. They are used to categorize or tag these to define security rules around data. Administrators can view and edit attributes on the administration pages; for example:

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On the Manage > Users page, edit a user and click Attributes to define attributes that control the data displayed to that user.

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On the Manage > Organizations page, edit an organization and click Attributes to define attributes that control the data displayed to users who belong to that organization.

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On the Manage > Server Settings page, click Server Attributes to define attributes that control the data returned by this server instance.

For more information on attributes, refer to the JasperReports Server Administrator Guide and the JasperReports Server Security Guide. For a detailed example of data-level security, including a complete example of cube security based on attributes and roles, refer to the Jaspersoft OLAP Ultimate Guide.