What is the use of REPORT_VIEW ACL?

[Suggy]

What is the use of REPORT_VIEW ACL? Can anyone give a scenario to understand the need of it? (Like what is the benefit of introducing this by ServiceNow?) 

I read the docs, I did not understand the use of it. I can manage everything using using normal ACL's only.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Suggy 

it's mostly used to control the table being rendered in some report widget on dashboard.

If user doesn't satisfy report_view ACL for the table then they usually see the message such as security restricted

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[Suggy]

What is the use of REPORT_VIEW ACL? Can anyone give a scenario to understand the need of it? (Like what is the benefit of introducing this by ServiceNow?) 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Suggy 

I already mentioned the use-case.

You can try to check it by not creating report_view ACL and see how it shows on dashboard for non-admin users or users who don't have read access on that table

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[manjusha_]

@Suggy 

1.The report_view operation is a record type access control list (ACL) that restricts access to reports. Only users who have one of the required roles can view reports that contain the restricted resource.

2.There are two kinds of report_view acl : report_view table ACLs and report_view field ACLs.

3.Report_view table ACLs prevent users from viewing report content based on the table specified in the ACL. 4.Report_view field ACLs prevent users from viewing reports that use the field specified in the ACL in the group by, row, column or aggregation.

For example, a report_view field ACL grants the report_admin role viewing access to the salary field in an HR table. When users with the itil or report_user role access a report grouped on the salary field, they see: Access to this content denied based on report_view field ACLs.

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Manjusha Bangale