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Hi All,

I want to customize cognos connection by removing welcome page and making public folders as default home page, Replace Cognos Connection name with compnay name.

any thoughts or help how to do it in detail. Thanks in advance.

--Kanch

has any one gotton idea??

Thanks.

Hi Kanch

To make Public Folder as Home
Do the following steps
1.htpp://localhost........../crn(open Report net)
2. Go to prefernce
3.Set prefences screen will appear
4.Change Home page Menu to Public folder.
    This will not show welcome page.
To change Cognos Connection Name to company name.
  1.Do this where you installed Reportnet
   2.Stop reportnet services.
   3. Go to c:\Program Files\cognos\crn\templates\ps\portal\system.xml
   4. Open system.xml in notepad
   5. find <param name="OEMmessages"> 
                    <!-- Messages/markup to appear in the top left corner of the CRN header -->
      <banner></banner>
      <!-- Messages/markup to appear in Cognos Connection title bar -->
      <title></title>
      <company>Cognos</company>
      <company_title>Cognos Incorporated</company_title>
      <product>Cognos ReportNet</product>
      <portal>Cognos Connection</portal>
                    <associatedProducts>
                              ----------
</para>
6.In this change <portal>Cognos Connection</portal> to Ur company name.
7.Or what i advice is put this in comment like this
<!--<portal>Cognos Connection</portal> -->
                <portal>UR Company Name </portal>
8. save the File
9.start the services.
and try.This will solve ur problem

To make the change for the public folder to be the default option globally you would change the system.xml file mentioned above.Ã,  Look for the following:

      <pref name="home">welcome</pref> <!-- [welcome | public | personal ] -->