OBIEE 11g - New Application Roles not Synchronized to RPD

Applies to:

Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.1.9.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Question 1

Why are the newly created application roles not synchronized to on-line RPD ?

Question 2

How to set a data filter to a role that is not synchronized to RPD?

Solution

Answer 1
This is an expected behaviour due to the new changes introduced in 9.x to get rid of App role synchronization.
It downloads roles during the start up and after that stores the hierarchy in the memory and not in RPD.

Answer 2
Application roles will not be synchronized in the repository any more, roles hierarchy is downloaded from BI security services when the BI Server starts ups, and then onwards it will be stored and used from memory.
The user can create an application role with the same name in the repository and can build the filter based on that role.
If an user has that application role, the filter will be applied by fetching the roles related data from the memory, but for this purpose roles need not be downloaded and stored in the repository.
On 11.1.1.9 you need to manually add new application roles in the Admin Tool in offline mode with the same application name as added in the Enterprise Manager.

References

BUG:21348050 - SYNCHRONIZE APPLICATION ROLES NOT WORKING ON 11.1.1.9 ADMIN TOOL