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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => BI Modeling (Transformer) => Topic started by: kado on 16 Mar 2012 12:19:52 PM

Title: Default to a Users Geography
Post by: kado on 16 Mar 2012 12:19:52 PM
Cognoise Community -

We've got an interesting requirement to 'Default' a User to their particular Geography (along our Geo Dimension down at the State Level) but the twist is that we don't want to restrict them from then traversing back up the hierarchy or from seeing other States, Regions, etc.

The current Transformer technology nicely supports 'Filtering' a user to their particular Geography and then restricting them from seeing anything else.

Anyone got any ideas or done anything like this in the past?

thanks,
Kado
Title: Re: Default to a Users Geography
Post by: Grim on 21 Mar 2012 07:28:41 AM
Custom Views is the only thing that comes to mind.
Title: Re: Default to a Users Geography
Post by: kado on 21 Mar 2012 11:16:24 AM
Thanks for the thought Grim,

I'm having trouble seeing that. How would a custom view (or set of custom views) solve it?
Title: Re: Default to a Users Geography
Post by: Grim on 21 Mar 2012 12:01:27 PM
Have a group of users setup for their geography. Use the custom view set to the group.

Just means your managing the users/groups. There is no automatic way of doing this in transformer, that I'm aware of.

You should be able to do it through FM and now Mobile.

More info on th mobile part here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos-8-go/mobile/features-and-benefits.html