Hi,
I am completely new to the BusinessObjects suite and am trying to understand which features might help me solve a problem.
In K-12 education, there is often a desire to allow users to drill into and filter data in various ways, but at the same time a need to protect student confidentiality (as required by FERPA, a U.S. law). It is not sufficient to prevent access to the most detailed data; we also have to prevent the viewer from inferring sensitive data based on obvious demographic characteristics or already-known data. For instance, given the following dataset for a school:
Name Gender Ethnicity Score
Bobby M White B
Samuel M Black A
Richard M Black A
Jenny F White A
Margo F Black A
Whitney F White A
And a data display like this:
Ethnicity
Gender <count of As>
If I filter Gender to F and allow all ethnicity values, I will see the following:
Ethnicity: All
Gender:F 3
Assuming I the viewer know there are three females in the dataset, and I happen to know that Jenny attends that school (info which is readily available), I now know that Jenny got an A.
Can I customize the universe or some other component in the system so that, in the above scenario, I see a "data not available" or something instead of the 3?
thanks!
Martin