Role assignments in SSRS

Question

I have created a SSRS report. In the report viewer I saw 2 security sections

1. site settings
2. folder settings.

What is the difference between

Answer 1

While the answer of Kavin may suits your needs note that it is not 100% matching your requirements: The Browser role does not have only the right to view reports and folders, it can also:

• Manage individual subscriptions
• View models
• View resources

The My Reports role can do a lot of extra things you may not want to grant:

• Create linked reports
• View resources
• Manage resources
• Manage folders
• Manage report history
• Manage individual subscriptions

The Publisher role have far less rights than the My Reports one, and will add just the Manage models task.

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I think the best option you have is to create custom roles.
To do so with SSRS 2008, you need to connect using SQL Server Management Studio, selecting the Reporting Services Server type.

You will be able to manage roles from there. Here is a MSDN article that will help you.

Back to your requirements, I think the custom roles you should create are (name them as you wish as long as you don't use an existing name):

Report Viewer:

• View reports
• View folders (if you want to provide a direct link to the reports and do not want people to be able to navigate to the hierarchy, do not add this task)

Report Manager:

• View reports
• View folders
• Manage reports
• View Data Sources
• Manage Data Sources

Then go back to the site settings and they will available as any other system role.