How to change the owner for report?

[sukran]

How to change the owner for report?

We have 10 no s report for one use who was resigned recently , now our customer want to change the owner of this report to some other person

How to achieve this ?

I cab able to saw all reports and its created by ex employee . now how to change the owner?

[angelerie]

Wouldn't this change the ability to view the report to only the person you update to this field?  Seems odd to change the default User of 'global' to a user name.

[Tony DiRienzo]

The User field controls who can view the report, not who owns it.  If you change the value in the User field, anyone who could previously view the report will no longer be able to view it, and I don't think that this is always the desired outcome (for example, if User was previously set to GLOBAL or group).

The owner of the report is set in the Created by user field (created_by_user).  By changing the Created by user, the report will now show up in the new user's My Reports list on the Reports > View / Run interface, and they will be able to edit and save changes to the report.

[avidev]

I found out easy way for this. 

Download the XML of the file. Replace the old user's User_Id and Sys_Id with the new user's User_Id and sys_Id  in the XML code.

Upload the XML again. The reports will come under new user's Report Dashboard.

Its an easy way to change the report ownership for Multiple reports in a shot.

[Tony DiRienzo]

Wow. I hadn't considered that before.  Editing the XML is a great way to make this change, because it doesn't require changing the system configuration or running code in the background.

[Brian Hatt]

Thank you!  I needed to do this for about 30 reports, and this method is very fast and easy.