VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 7
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Page Security
Page security provides report security by page. Users can be assigned specific pages to view based
on the contents of a report. If a report contains sales account numbers for multiple users, VISTA
can be set up to allow users to view only the pages that contain their sales account numbers.
A logical copy of the report is made for each user that can view the report. This eliminates
retaining multiple copies of a report, thereby reducing disk space requirements. Report users see
only the information that pertains to them; they cannot see information that belongs to other users.
The NBSpool program’s VSAVE command with the INDEX option builds page security tables
when a report is saved. This functionality makes the customized report available to users without
the users having to perform additional tasks. Should page security selection criteria be changed
after a report is indexed, a command is available to re-index a report. For more information on re-
indexing, turn to “Re-indexing Reports” section in Chapter 5 of this guide.
Page Security is defined in the Logical View Maintenance window. This window is described in the
following section.
Note. Page security is a VISTA Plus feature.