In some scenarios, you may want an app to show data relevant and authorized for the user who is viewing it. This brings in the need to set up data level entitlements. You can now choose to do away with writing explicit code to provide user based access to data by defining the entitlement criteria at the database level and mapping the defined entitlement criteria to the view columns in Canvas Studio.
This feature comes with the following benefits:
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For more information on this feature, refer Canvas Technology 18.1 - Entitlement Framework Reference Guide.