Hello All,
I am no longer a "newbie" to Analytics, though I would hardly consider myself an expert yet as I am still too enamored over the SSRS reports that I have built. But in continuing to try and take advantage of the power of Analytics and in working with one of our resident companies, I have noticed that they have access to information that is coming from our default control group. This control group we have (re)named to be "Campus All Access" because we are a consortium, and, since one cannot define who does and who does not have access to that control group in Tessitura Security, every user group has access to it (thus the campus).
I suppose I knew this when I first set things up for Analytics when we first went live with that upgrade, but what I had forgotten until now is that it ALSO does not appear as an option for Analytics either. Which seemingly means that every user group ALSO has access to anything in that control group. Historically, we have just put the vouchers for all of our resident companies there because it made no real difference and was nice for people to be able to find them.
But now that one of our resident companies is wanting to do reporting on vouchers, they are finding it hard to get accurate numbers because they are seeing the vouchers for the other 5 resident companies as well. Before I embark on the fun process of reassigning all vouchers and whatnot back to their specific control groups (which, arguably, should have been done in the first place, but that is neither here nor there at this point in time), is there ANY way to control who has access to the default control group in Analytics and I am just missing it? Or am I just stuck with a reassignment project that I was probably going to have to do eventually anyway?
P.S. I understand the reasoning behind every user group automatically having access to the default control group as a means of preventing them from accidentally having zero data whatsoever to access, but... am I alone in thinking that that is a standard that should go away? And, by extension, each user group then having a "default" control group that is the one "automatically" assigned to things like new lists instead of the overall "default control group" for EVERYONE?
Anyway, I have taken enough of your time.
John A. Moskal II
I think it's a little more like Perf0: Control Group is always a required column and there needed to be a default value to go there even when for whatever reason one didn't need to be selected. It sounds like you renamed the default "Campus All Access", but then later wound up with a class of non-campus users, and so would want to have "Campus All Access" be a regular security group applied to all campus users to separate them from the non-campus users?
No, they are campus users, too. Really it is that absolutely no one ever paid attention to the issuance of vouchers in the past, they only ever cared about redemptions, which was tracked of course as comp tickets with comp reasons, and who ever set it up initially was too lazy to do it right by putting each one in each specific organization, and I never cared enough myself to bother to enforce a database-wide change to the practice and am stuck with this situation now that someone IS bothering to report on voucher inssuance.
But I do wish there was a way to specify a default for each user group instead. Having the -1 value as the default for EVERYTHING is just a little not great in my book.