export locked data source
It's been a while since I've setup a new folder for a new department in RDM and an option I used previously seems to be gone (or I'm not remembering how it works)
What I would do is create a data source on my machine (I'm an admin) with the connection settings(server, sql login, cache settings, etc), then lock it with a password and export it. I would distribute that file and users were able to import it and access the RDM.
With version 10.5.4 though, I'm finding I can't export a locked data source. Has something changed? I can see not allowing an admin to export a locked data source but is there any way I can do it?
Ideally, I could lock certain options and only allow users the ability to change the prompt for offline mode on startup, ping online method and auto go offline. Everything else they shouldn't need to change.
All Comments (3)
Hi,
You need to unlock it to export it and lock it back after the import.
For now we don't have the partial locking. I will enter a feature request for that but I'm not sure how easy this would be in term of UI.
David Hervieux
I compared an older .rdd file to the one I exported the other day and it seems like putting in the lockuicode tag makes it import as locked. Is this a valid solution or am I asking for trouble?
As for my feature request, the only thing I can think of is maybe adding it to the administrator > data source settings. Maybe having toggles to lock the server settings for non admins, lock the auto refresh and cache modes, etc?
Hi,
I think you could add the lockuicode but I have added a feature request to simplify this.
It's really a code idea to lock the data source with the data source settings. I will also add a feature request
David Hervieux