Creating write and read-only entity data roles for Financial Consolidation

When you publish entities, the associated entity accountant data roles are published with write or read-only permissions for the corresponding entity.

Only members of the Business Modeling Administrator role can change these publish permissions.

Entity accountant data roles are created and managed by Business Modeling.

Role names are based on the entity OLAP ID. The OLAP ID can be modified to meet character limits for data role names.

The default naming patterns are subject to character-limit adjustments.

These are the default role naming patterns:

  • DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID> for the Write role.
  • DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID>_RO for the Read-Only role.

Write and Read-only options behavior and available scenarios

The Write option is enabled by default.

Switching on the Read-Only option enables the Write option.

Switching off the Write option disables the Read-Only option.

The change has effect when you publish the model.

This table shows how the Write and Read-Only options control the creation of entity‑specific roles:

Write option Read-Only option Roles created
Off Off No entity-specific roles are created.
On Off A write role per entity is created: (DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID>).
On On Both write and read-only roles per entity are created: DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID> and DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID>_RO.

Setting the write and read-only options

  1. Select Manage Model > Publish Model.
  2. In the Read/write entity data roles for Financial Consolidation section, you can perform these actions:
    • Switch on the Write option to publish a data role per entity with write permissions for the corresponding entity. The role is named DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID>.
    • Switch on the Read-Only option to publish an additional data role per entity with read-only permissions for the corresponding entity. The role is named DR_EntAcc_<Entity_OLAP_ID>_RO.
    • To delete all existing entity-specific data roles, both write and read-only, switch off the Write option.
    The entity-specific data roles and any additional read-only data roles are deleted when the entity is deleted.