Hiiding the "search" prompt from the tool-bar in Cognos Connection

[ordotan]

Hi,

Is there an easy way to hide the "search" prompt from the tool-bar in Cognos Connection, for a given user group, using the embedded permissions that exist within Cognos?

I had found the following documentation by IBM, but it seems too complicated, and requires editing system.xml.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/caapps/v10r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.im.cognos.ug_cra.10.1.0.doc%2Fug_cra_id36310CustomizetheUserInterfaceBasedonGroupandR.html

[CognosPaul]

Using the system.xml is the only way to hide it.

One thing that you might want to do is to create a cognos role that is explicitly allowed to use search. For example, create a role called "searchUsers", then add the following to the system.xml:

<param name="ui_hide">
   <CRN_HEADER_SEARCH show="searchUsers"/>
   <CC_HEADER_MENU_search show="searchUsers"/>
   <CC_TOOLBAR_BUTTONS_search show="searchUsers"/>
</param>

After you restart Cognos, only people in that role would be able to see the search. You could then add or remove people/groups/roles as needed.

[ordotan]

Thanks Paul !

[ordotan]

One last thing I'm trying to hide, is the "Set Properties" button in a portlet (see attched)

I haven't found reference to this element in the following article:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/caapps/v10r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.im.cognos.ug_cra.10.1.0.doc%2Fug_cra_id36310CustomizetheUserInterfaceBasedonGroupandR.html

Anybody knows?

[ordotan]

I had found a solution on my own :)

The elements that needs to be rendered are:
CC_TOOLBAR_BUTTONS_edit_pagelet
CC_TOOLBAR_BUTTONS_newpagelet