Hiding Metric studio and analysis studio

[Anand]

Hi,
How can we Hide Metric studio and Analysis studio in cognos connection home page in cognos8

Regards,
Anand.

[cognosjon]

All hangs on your security to the application for instance if you have users defined within the Cognos 'Consumers' group then those users will not see any of the available applications and only be able to run reports/shcedule reports.  If you delare users as query users then they only see the Query Studio link.

Not sure if that helps,

[kommireddy]

You can do it by modifying system.xml file under c8_location/templates/ps/portal

Steps Using the System.xml File
1. Stop the Cognos 8 service.
2. Open the c8_location/templates/ps/portal/system.xml file in an XML or text editor.
3. Use the following syntax in the <system> element to hide a user interface element:
<param name="ui_hide">
<!--list of user interface elements-->
</param>

For example, the following XML code hides the entire Cognos Connection header and the
New Job button in the toolbar:

<param name="ui_hide">
<CC_HEADER/>
<CC_TOOLBAR_BUTTONS_newjobDefinition/>
</param>

For Metric studio and Analysis studio,

<param name="ui_hide">
<CRN_HEADER_OPTIONS_mm/>
<CRN_HEADER_OPTIONS_ps/>
</param>

Regards,
Kommireddy.

[shri]

In cognos connection goto

Tool->Capability-> then in the action column click set properties for which link (ananlysis studio or report studio) one you want to hide, and then click on permission tab, then remove that particular user (to whom you want to hide the links)  from list.  Hope this helps

cheers

[kommireddy]

There are two options,

If you want users to run reports created with AS/MS then you should hide the links by modifying the system.xml file (you can enable the links to administrators though).

If you deny permissions from tools-->capabilities, user wont be able to run reports created through AS/MS.