Moving Reports in Cognos Connection

[Good Friend]

Hello Everyone. If there is User A and A has his reports under his my folders in Cognos connection.A wants to share those reports to User B and C and his other group. Is there a way we can create a centralized folder under public folders for this set of users, let say the user who has his adhoc reports in their "my folders" will share or copy their reports to that particular folder under "public folders", so other users can retrieve reports from there and copy them into their "my folders". But can we give the move or copy permission from user my folders to move that report to only that centralized folder and they are not permitted to move that report into any other folders under public folders even though they have access to reports in other folders under public folders. Please advise on what is the best way of doing at your earliest convenience. Thanks.

Also Is there any other way of directly copying the reports from one user's my folder to another user my folder ?

[MDXpressor]

Well, my Good Friend,

Yes it is completely feasible to have a shared user folder.  I do this in many of my deployments, since I lock down my Public Folders with Standardized (Gold-Star) content.  Basically I add a folder 'Shared User Content'; usually members of my BACC (my power users) will be assigned their own folders automatically, everyone else by request.  To accomplish this, you just need to add the folders, click on their properties icon, and go to the permissions tab.  Place a check in 'Override the access permissions acquired from the parent entry'.  That will activate the 'Add/Remove' buttons.  When you want apply permissions, check the users/groups you want to change, place check in the access rights you want them to have, and then click ok.  Those rights include

Read:  Can open the object
Write:  Can add/delete/edit files
Traverse:  can pass-through (without being able to read)
Execute:  Can run the object
Set Policy:  Can change permissions

To make sure they don't save in folders where they shouldn't, click on the folder to protect's properties, go to permissions tab, and remove the check for 'Write' for any groups other than your admin team.

To copy a user's content from one 'My Folders' to another, you'll need to log in as an Admin.  Go to Cognos Administration, then the Security tab. Select Users, groups, and roles in the left pane.  In the main pane, click on your User's Namespace (likely to be your Active Directory, or LDAP).  Navigate to the user, and finally 'My Folders'.  Their content should be available to copy and paste.

I'm not sure if you are sure how to copy/paste, but just in case...  To actually perform a copy, you place a check in the box of the object to copy, and then hit the 'copy' button near the top on the right.  Then you navigate to the folder you want to paste it into and hit paste (again, near the top right).