Ownership of Elements¶

All the elements of a database have an owner (data sources, views, web services, folders, etc.). The user that creates an element automatically becomes its owner. Later, the ownership of that element can be granted to another user with the command CHOWN.

Syntax of the statement CHOWN¶

; To change the owner of a data source
CHOWN <user:identifier>
   DATASOURCE { CUSTOM | DF | ESSBASE | JDBC | JSON | LDAP | MONGODB | ODBC |
                OLAP | SALESFORCE | SAPBWBAPI | SAPERP | WS | XML } <name:identifier>

; To change the owner of a wrapper
CHOWN <user:identifier>
   WRAPPER { CUSTOM | DF | ESSBASE | JDBC | JSON | LDAP | MONGODB | ODBC |
          OLAP | SALESFORCE | SAPBWBAPI | SAPERP | WS | XML } <name:identifier>

; To change the owner of a view, stored procedure, web service (SOAP and REST) and JMS listener
CHOWN <user:identifier>
   { VIEW | PROCEDURE | WEBSERVICE | LISTENER JMS } <name:identifier>

; To change the owner of a folder
CHOWN <user:identifier> FOLDER <path:literal>

To change the owner of an element you need to be a global administrator or an administrator of the database to which this element belongs.

There are several ways of obtaining the owner of an element:

From Design Studio: right-click an element and then, click Properties.
Using the command DESC with the parameter includeUserPrivileges. For example:
```
DESC VQL VIEW invoice ('includeUserPrivileges'='yes')
```
The output will contain a CHOWN statement.

Using one of the stored procedures that return information about the elements. E.g. GET_VIEWS returns the owner of the views and GET_ELEMENTS returns the owner of any type of element.

USER MANUALS

Ownership of Elements¶