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IBM Cognos Analytics Platform => Cognos Analytics => Administration and Security => Topic started by: gohabsgo on 22 Sep 2023 11:15:25 AM

Title: Disable / Hide ability to browse "Directory" when scheduling reports
Post by: gohabsgo on 22 Sep 2023 11:15:25 AM
Hi Folks,
We would like to either disable or hide the ability to browse the "Directory Namespace" when selecting recipients for scheduled reports.

I've tried removing traverse/read access to the namespace object, but then they can't login.  We have multiple user communities in the namespace and dont want them being able to see the user list.

Restricting them to just entering the email of recipients manually is where we want to be.

Thanks in advance,
-Dan
Title: Re: Disable / Hide ability to browse "Directory" when scheduling reports
Post by: gohabsgo on 22 Sep 2023 01:32:58 PM
Solved my own problem!

Figure I'll leave this here in case others hit it.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-restrict-users-when-selecting-email-recipients
Title: Re: Disable / Hide ability to browse "Directory" when scheduling reports
Post by: dougp on 25 Sep 2023 11:09:36 AM
That's an eye opener.  A little disturbing, actually.  Early on in my Cognos experience I heard that "Cognos is all about security."  So I figured that would be a default setting that can't be overridden.  But I never tested it.
Title: Re: Disable / Hide ability to browse "Directory" when scheduling reports
Post by: cognostechie on 25 Sep 2023 12:38:39 PM
Quote from: gohabsgo on 22 Sep 2023 01:32:58 PM
Solved my own problem!

Figure I'll leave this here in case others hit it.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-restrict-users-when-selecting-email-recipients

Thanks for sharing !