Datasource Authorizations

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This type of Authorization can be used to give Users and/or User Groups permissions for a Datasource.

There are various ways to manage datasource authorizations.

You can connect to the Management Service user interface of Mail & Deploy and click the Authorizations item in the main menu. This will provide you with a list of all authorizations currently set up.
You can connect to the Management Service user interface of Mail & Deploy and click the Datasources item in the main menu. This will provide you with a list of all Datasource currently set up. Then click the  button to edit authorizations for a datasource.

You can programmatically manage datasource authorizations using the API of Mail & Deploy.

Every datasource authorization has the following properties:

Name	Description
Datasource	The Datasource to which the authorization applies.
User Container	The User or User Group to which the authorization applies.
Permissions	A list of permissions (see below) granted by this authorization.

You can assign the following permissions:

Name	Description
Request Datasource Object	This permission allows the User to request any Datasource object (e.g. a single table or visualization) of the datasource (e.g. through the Hub or the Qlik Sense Extension.
Subscribe To Datasource Object	This permission allows the User to create Subscriptions for any Datasource object (e.g. a single table or visualization) of the datasource (e.g. through the Hub or the Qlik Sense Extension.
Use Alerting	This permission allows the User to create Alerts for the Datasource (e.g. through the Hub or the Qlik Sense Extension.

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