Setting up user security: The filter will only accept groups and roles...

[wentriken]

I am editing user security and am trying to give a user access to an e.List item. I select the user using the [...] button and successfully find that user by searching in our AD domain.

After I select the user and press OK, that user does not come into the CAC, just this error The filter will only accept groups and roles. Users will not be added to the filter. I don't see any filters here at all.

Have you seen this before and is it possible to set up security by users?

Thank you,
WE

[ericlfg]

Hi William,

The message you are receiving is by design.  In order to add a specific user, rather than a group or role, that use needs to be a member of some kind of hierarchy in your security provider.

Ex: If you're using cognos groups and roles with a Role called "Test".  You would populate this test role with members from your namespace.  In the CAC, you would select the Cognos namespace when you click on the elipsis and then select your Test role.  The Test role and all of the members will be listed at this point and you can select either the full test role itself, or individual members from the role.

The same would be true if you're trying to add members directly from your 3rd party authentication provider.  The individual users need to be part of a roll-up role or group in order to add that roll-up role or group to the filter.  Once added to the filter you can select the individual users.

Hope this helps.

[wentriken]

Eric,

Thank you, very helpful. I have used Cognos Administration to add all Planning users to the Planning Contributor Users group. Then I added this group using the ellipsis. Afterwards, I could then see the individual users in the drop down box.

Thanks!