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1217552 - Error: 'Operation Failed : You do not have edit rights on <Folder Name>' when attempting to save an Image, a Text Object, or a Function to the Repository, in Crystal Reports

Symptom

  • Unable to save an image.
  • Error when attempting to save a Picture, a Text Object, or a Function to the repository.
  • When users attempt to save an Image, a Text Objects, or a Function in the Repository in Crystal Reports, it fails with an error:

       "Operation Failed : You do not have edit rights on: <Folder Name>"
       
           
  • Note: Images and data in this SAP Knowledge Base Article is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

Environment

  • SAP Crystal Reports 2013
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2016
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2020

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Start Crystal Reports.
  2. Under the menu "View", select "Repository Explorer"
  3. In the "Repository Explorer" pane, click on "Logon", and login to the SAP BusinessObjects BI server.
  4. In the "Repository Explorer", try to save a Picture, a Text Object, or a Function.
    It then generated the error:  'Operation Failed : You do not have edit rights on <Folder Name>'

Cause

  • User does not have the right to edit the SAP BusinessObjects Repository. 

Resolution

  • Add the View, and Edit rights to the user on the Repository, in the Business View Manager: 
        
    1. Start the Business View Manager.
        
    2. Log On to the BusinessObjects Enterprise using an Administrator account.
        
    3. If the screen "Welcome to Business View Manager" display, click "Cancel" 
         
    4. Under the menu "View", select "Repository Explorer"
        
    5. In the "Repository Explorer" pane on the right side, right click on the folder, and select: "Edit Rights..."

         Business_View_Manager_Edit_Rights_01.png
        
    6. In the "Edit Rights" window, add the User who is unable to save an object to a folder.
        
    7. Grant the user the rights: View and Edit.   

        Business_View_Manager_Edit_Rights_02.png
        (In the screenshot above, granted the user: User01, the rights to View, and Edit) 
          
    8. Click "OK" 
       
         
  • Note: To give rights to the whole Repository, grant the View and Edit rights on the root folder.

Keywords

REPOSITORY SAVE EDIT RIGHTS CRYSTAL ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATOR OPERATION FAILED Crystal Reports Server BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Access rights to CE Repository Crystal Repository , c2015763 , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem

Product

SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2020