Container Protection
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Container Protection
Sage Intelligence Reporting uses protection at a Container and Container Expression Level to protect intellectual property. This means that advanced data modeling in relational databases and advanced SQL Expressions can be protected when reports are distributed. To enforce this protection Sage Intelligence Reporting stores information about who the Container is Owned By (the original Container and all those created on import to other systems) and who the Container is Licensed To. Such information can be viewed on the properties screen of a container when you check the Show Advanced button at the bottom of the properties screen.
The Container Licensed To property specifies the Company (Sage Intelligence Reporting licensed company) that has been authorised to import reports that use this container. Authorisation is performed by the Owner of the Container on Export. If this property is left blank then anyone can import and use the Container.
The Container Owned By property is the Company (Sage Intelligence Reporting licensed company) that created the original Container. The Ownership and protection options of a Container can only be changed by the Owner of the Container on Export of the report and using a Solution Developer license. Unless the Ownership options are changed all Containers created in destination systems will retain the original Owner on import.
The Owner of a Container can also specify protection options for an Export File and its Container at Export. See Exporting Reports with Protection for more information.
The Owner of a Container can also remotely unlock the Container, for a client using the Container, using the "Generate Unlock Pin Codes" facility supplied (Solution Developer License only). See Unlocking A Container and Expressions for more detail.
A Container Owner may set up a trust relationship between a report End User and a Third Party (for example, outsourced report writer) in order to facilitate remote modifications to reports. For more information see the topic Importing a Report licensed to another Company for details on.