Hi Filip, you are correct - with read access to a table you can create a report based on it, but you are not able to save the report unless you have write access to the folder you want to save it to. Unless the data are sensitive, I give all users read access - but create a separate folder for "official reports" that only data administrators have write access to. That way users can get to know the data, play around with it, but only save the results/reports to their own personal folder (or a shared folder for drafts). Re-reading your original question, I see I was to quick - to open a report (view), you also need read permission on the table. That implies you can create a report based on the table, you are only able to restrict where the report can be saved.
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