Importing a Report licensed to another Company

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Importing a Report That is Licensed to Another Company

Sage Intelligence Reporting Report Developers that have protected their Intellectual Property through the Sage Intelligence Reporting Container Protection paradigm can authorise a third party to be able to import a report that has been licensed to a different End User Company.

This is useful where the company that is licensed to use the report outsources changes to that report to a third party. In this case the third party would need to obtain a unique Handshake Pin Code from the Report Developer (Container Owner). This pin code is a unique code that allows the third party to import any reports created by the Report Developer but licensed to the End User. This mechanism allows reports to be sent to a third party, changes to be made and then sent back to the licensed End User.

A Report Developer uses the Authorise Remote Report Import menu option on the Sage Intelligence Reporting Enterprise object in the Connector to generate unique Handshake Pin Codes. After entering the Licensed User (Sage Intelligence Reporting Registered Company Name) and the receiving Third Party (Sage Intelligence Reporting Registered Company Name) a unique Handshake Pin Code is supplied.

Since the authorisation must come from the Report Developer (Container Owner) the relationship is a trusted one and prevents abuse of the Report Developers intellectual property.

When a third party that tries to import a report that is licensed for use by a different Company they will receive an Import Authorisation screen. To continue with the import at this point a valid Handshake Pin Code must be entered. This Handshake Pin Code must be obtained from the Report Developer. The Import Authorisation screen is shown below.