Create a View

NOTE: This section only applies to custom components and the three delivered custom components: Construct, MC and dspCompose_Data. Create a view in a database on the DSP® database instance that returns the values that represent the data items by which security can be defined.  The view must follow the name convention: web*Sec. 

These views should return all of the columns that are going to be applicable in the security model.

The following view is an example of how to build a view to restrict access on the Customers page to specific CustomerIDs:

CREATEVIEW [dbo].[webCustomerIDSec]

AS

SELECT     CustomerID

FROM         dbo.Customers

 

It is important to note here that 1 → n columns can be defined in the Sec view, where n is the number of columns being used in defining security. For this example, a second security view will be created that grants record visibility based on ContactTitle and City:

CREATEVIEW [dbo].[webContactTitleCitySec]

AS

SELECTDISTINCT ContactTitle, City

FROM         dbo.Customers

 

In addition to the columns that will be explicitly used in defining security, designers can also include a column aliased as “FriendlyName,” and the value returned in this column will be displayed to the on-site administrators when they are deciding which values to assign to a role or a user. The following is an example of security view with “FriendlyName”:

CREATEVIEW [dbo].[webCustomerIDFriendlyNameSec]

AS

SELECT     CustomerID, CompanyName AS FriendlyName

FROM         dbo.Customers