Is it possible to create an entity based on a view (so with the "Represents Structure of Database View" checkbox checked, and with the view created using a SQL script) that inherits its record permissions from a "real" entity? I tried to do so by simply checking the record permissions checkbox and specifying the parent object in the "Object to inherit access permissions from" field of the entity, but this doesn't seem to work.
My setup is that we have the OOTB Leads entity, and then I've created a view over the top of it taking all columns but with a filter condition, to be used for reporting over Leads while filtering out certain Leads that should never be included in reporting so we have a more consistent reporting basis and don't have to make sure to include those filters in every widget. I added 2 columns to the view based on the Id and LeadName columns called UsrBaseLeadId and UsrBaseLeadName, which then have a lookup column UsrBaseLead added over them in the view-based entity. This lookup is then used as the "Object to inherit access permissions from" for the view-based entity.
There aren't any errors thrown in the logs when trying to do this, but non-super-users just can't see any of the records. When I tried to check a record in the view's permissions, I could see that the SysRights table for the view entity doesn't exist, so I tried creating that rights "table" as a view in the database that took its data from the Rights Table of the real entity, but while that seemed to work inasmuch as I could check a record's access rights and see that the correct rights were there and was even able to modify those rights, it didn't make it visible to a non-super-user.
