Mark reports as public switch Allow/Restrict

This section explains how we can Allow/Restrict to mark the Reports as public from the Administration reports settings page.

we can able to control the user to make the Reports as public through the Reports settings tab in settings page. The user can able to mark the Reports as public, if the Administrator Allow the Mark reports as public option.

Take Control Over the Public Reports

If the Administrator has allowed, then the user can able to mark the Reports as public and other users can able to see the public Reports.
If the Administrator has restricted, the public Reports cannot be rendered by the user until they hold the permission for the Reports.

If the user trying to publish the Report from Designer by enabling Make public option, Report Server will allow publishing the Report if the Administrator has allowed the Mark Reports as public option in Reports Tab in the Settings page. Otherwise, the error message will be shown like below.

Mark reports as public switch Allow/Restrict Public Reports

After restricted the Mark reports as public option in reports settings page,

If click on Make Public option from context menu of the respective Reports, For administrator the following message will be shown

If click on Make Public option from context menu of the respective Reports, For user the following message will be shown

After restricted Mark reports as public option, if click on Public Reports tab, for administrator the following message will be shown

After restricted the Mark reports as public, if click on Public Reports tab, for end user the following message will be shown

Make Public

Follow the steps below to make the Reports accessible to anonymous users.

1.Allow the Mark reports as public option in reports settings page,

2.Click on Make Public option from context menu of the respective Report,

3.Click on Make public in the confirmation dialog box,then Reports will be marked as public.

NOTE

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