Several types of objects in this application can be set up with either global, personal, or shared designations. Views fall into that category. Also, user lists, user links, actions, and conditional formats can be either global or personal but not shared. Broadcast schedules and broadcast groups always have a global designation. Data copies, data imports, and master data imports always have a personal designation. User Controlled Attributes don’t have any type of object designation associated with them. Their definitions in Stratum.Viewer are independent of who originally created them.
The global, personal, or shared designation is a means of controlling which users can use the objects and save edits to the objects.
Global Objects – global user lists, user links, actions, and conditional formats can be used by all users but only created by administrators. For example, an administrator creates a global view and enables it for the view groups of other users. Those users will be able to see the global view in their left panel and run the view. They cannot change the global view definition. If they make edits to the global view and want to save them, they can perform a Save As to create a shared or personal copy of the view.
Personal Objects – can be used by all users but only edited by object owners and administrators. For example, a user with an advanced level of access in the application can filter a view using another user’s personal user list but cannot maintain that user list.
Shared Views – can be created or used by any type of user. Anyone with access to the view group to which the view belongs will see the shared view in their left panel. A shared view is a collaborative view for use within a group or department, but does not need to be managed by a Viewer administrator.