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Release Date: 6 September 2021

Ebiexperts | Public

SAM User Guide

SAM Version: MVP

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Welcome to SAM
Table of Contents
Welcome to SAM
Introduction
What Is Section Access (SA)?
Section Access Challenges:
SAM ROI:
How SAM Works:
Please see the following documentation:
SAM works with two user types:
SAM provides for two main automation processes:
Reverse Engineer (RE)
SAM Errors:
Application Wire Frame:
SAM Provides the following interfaces:
Login Screen:
Qlik Login:
Admin Login:
Login
Menu
Ebiexperts Logo
User Elements:
Language
Help Wiki
Exit
KPI's
Global Search
Active Control
Active Control Sub Page
Filters
Active Control Data Grid
Grid Control Panel
Refresh the grid:
Grid Layout
Task Buttons:
Action Buttons:
Apps Sub Page
Grid Control Panel
Refresh the grid:
Grid Layout
Apps Container View
Apps List View
Edit App
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Please Note: Scan Type
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Admin:
User:
Deny:
Reduction Fields
Copy User Rights: Inherit Rights
Omit Dimensions
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Revert Script:
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Admin
Servers
Server Grid Control Panel
Create Server
Edit Server
Import Users
Import Users
User Rights
Users
User Grid
Edit User
User Rights
Tags
Global Configurations
Acronyms & Terminology

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  • Developer / Application Owner onboarding.

    • Assign admins to receive onboarding requirements and grant of access

  • Automatically controls access to application section access configurations based on Qlik role assignments

    • Admins see all applications and developers/application owners see only their own applications

  • Scanning of existing and new applications can be set to auto, manual, both or external

    • Section access will automatically be applied to applications that don’t have existing section access script

    • Manual applications will automatically reverse engineer existing section access scripts and convert them to SAM controlled scripts for manual controls

    • SAM can read from external section access database tables and automate the Qlik API integration for customers who have existing Governance Risk Compliance and access management systems

  • Automate Section Access between Qlik and SAM

    • Automatically assign section access on a stream level

    • Utilize the visual interface to apply reductions and omits to specific users or user groups

  • Exclude streams and development applications where required

  • Automated notifications and alerts

    • Admins and Application owners receive automated alerts

      • Developer and Admin access requests

      • Application user access requests

      • Applications in Qlik with Section Access but not controlled by SAM

    • Utilize the SAM Governance Qlik Sense Application to easily audit who has access to which application as well as data level access

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What Is Section Access (SA)?

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The user can now assign Reduction Fields to the App user list by selecting the user and assigning the fields either manually per user or by utilizing the bulk inheritance assignment feature across many users.

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Copy User Rights: The User Rights assignment feature is an important one as it is very much a time saving user allocation feature, we will build out even better in next version of SAM. Now the user can select a user, copy the user rights, select multiple other users and paste the user rights to those users. The user will see the copied rights per user as evidence of the correct assignments as well as on the next step where the grid will validate the user assignments.

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