Patent attributes
Methods and systems for providing configurable feature level controls for data. The data can be associated with data visualization and analysis in a distributed search engine environment. An example method comprises providing a user interface for enabling a selection of a type of access to grant for each feature of a plurality of features, the selection being on a feature-by-feature basis and the selection being assigned to selected roles; and in response to the selection of the type of access, automatically controlling the type of access to each of the features including determining whether a user has any role to which a particular feature has been assigned; and based on the determining, for users having any of the selected roles, permitting the type of access selected for the particular feature assigned to the selected roles. The types of access may comprise read-only, full, no access, or differing levels of access.
