Read Only Access to Assets

[Jon Collins2]

Hi Folks, 

Our finance team needs read-only access to see asset data (e.g. who has what assigned). Clearly, we do not want to give finance team access to edit asset assignments - is there a way we can provide that team with read-only access, or would we be better of providing a scheduled report?

Thanks in advance. 

[Saurav11]

Hello,

Yes you can create a read ACL with the logic the if logged is a part of the finance assignment group then have users the access

Thanks

[Jon Collins2]

How are other teams doing this? Scheduled reports or ACL limitations on write access?

[Allen Andreas · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Depending on the context of what they're doing and their familiarity with ServiceNow anyway (do they use it normally?) -- most outcomes with this I've seen a specific report just sent to them 'x' time period.

It's pretty easy to just throw a quick report together of all assets where the assigned to is not empty, you decide the data that gets seen (by columns) and then send that to a set email box, for example.

I would propose this first instead of changing/creating ACLs.

Please mark reply as Helpful/Correct, if applicable. Thanks!

[John McConnell]

Agree with @Allen A ... reporting is the first option (no code changes needed).