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This document explains techniques for controlling access to data used in action sequences in the Pentaho BI Platform. It assumes familiarity with the Pentaho BI Platform, creating action sequences using the action sequence editor, and SQL database queries. We recommend reading the Creating Pentaho Solutions *(TODO: *LINK) guide guide and Getting Started with Design Studio prior to reading this document.
Motivation
When developing an action sequence, you may need to restrict a user's view of the available data based on some criteria. For instance, you may develop an action sequence that queries a database for financial information, and displays the financial information in a web page. However you may want to restrict a user's view of the financial data to the data from the user's region (e.g. Eastern, Southern, Western, Northern). You can use a system action to assist in filtering the data provided to the user.
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