One of the huge benefits that a SAAS BI solution like

Zoho Reports brings to a business team is the power of online collaboration. Reports
and data (tables) can be shared easily and collaborated upon. Zoho
Reports has offered from day one, a good many

fine-grained sharing options. And in the recent update, we have enhanced these sharing
options one step further by bringing in multi-level sharing
permissions.

When
you share a report to another user (by clicking on

Share

->

Share this View to New Users), you now have the option to specify
if the shared user in turn can share that report to other users. And when a
table is shared using this option, the shared user can in turn share
not just the table but also the reports that he/she created over that
table (child reports) to other users too.

Here’s a typical scenario where the multi-level sharing comes into play. The Sales Head of your organization shares the Sales data with his Divisional Managers. A Divisional Manager can make reports specific to her division and share it with her Sales Representatives. The below screenshot explains this scenario – ‘Sales’ table being shared to Fatima (fatimay@zillum), who’s the West region’s head. Fatima in turn makes a couple of reports for her division’s (West) reps Nathan (nbrooks@zillum) and Manish (manishp@zillum).

The Administrator of the account


(the Sales Head in the above case)


gets to see the whole sharing hierarchy of who’s created what & who’s shared with whom and has got full controls over Edit/Delete permissions of views.

Hope you like this multiple-level sharing option. Try it in

Zoho Reports and your comments and feedback are most welcome!

We have a few avenues from where we reach out to our users. An all formal blog portal at Zoho Blogs where we make the high profile announcements and the Forum which is our 2 way communication platform – our users voice their opinions, ideas, suggestions etc and get help from us and other power users when they are stuck up at some place. We felt that other tiny announcements, geeky tips and tricks, ways and means to make any application jaw dropping, informal posts – bordering on technical stuff and otherwise which don’t fit into either are being left out. 

We thought a middle ground where such posts could see the light of the day would be a good idea. And thus was born ZC Lounge. We started out with a few guest posts from some of our power users and other geek tips which users could use. It has been around for a while now. The news is, lately we’ve been spending a lot of time at the Lounge coming up with more interesting posts.

Here are some of the recent posts from the Lounge:

• Integrating GData API with Zoho applications
• Support: The face of Zoho Creator
• Personalize your Online Forms: Custom Field Width and Alignment
• NASSCOM EMERGE 50 automated 80% of their work using Zoho Creator 

We have loads of posts and activities planned for the Lounge in the coming days. So keep your bookmarks/feeds updated. Come and be a part of our discussions there too. Do let us know what else you’d like to see there. Even better.. If you’d like to make a guest post.. Send us an email so that we can set it up for you!

See you at the ZC Lounge