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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Business Insight / Cognos Workspace => Topic started by: PlayCognos on 15 Jan 2015 12:28:42 PM

Title: Workspace Widget Comment
Post by: PlayCognos on 15 Jan 2015 12:28:42 PM
Hi,
Is there a way to restrict a user from adding comments to a widget in a workspace (Cognos 10.2.1)? The user currently has read, execute and traverse access to the workspace object.

Thank you in advance.
Title: Re: Workspace Widget Comment
Post by: CognosAnalytics on 15 Jan 2015 06:54:08 PM
Hello PlayCognos,
As far as I know, there is no way of hiding just the "comments" UI. You can, however, hide the whole widget toolbar, but that kind of defeats the purpose of workspaces as that toolbar also holds other options like switching the display format, color scheme etc.
If there is a way to hide it using some XML changes at the system level, I do not know about it, but lets wait and see what the experts here have to say :).

-Cognos810
Title: Re: Workspace Widget Comment
Post by: PlayCognos on 16 Jan 2015 09:02:56 AM
Hi Cognos810,
Thanks for your suggestion. Hiding the whole toolbar would have been a good option except it limits the user's capability to export the widget content to a spreadsheet (which is a requirement we need to have). I will be curious to see if some XML changes or some other option will make this possible.

Thank you.