Different access rights to different user groups

[abhishekbajpai001]

How can i create different user groups in Cognos 8.4 and confer them different levels of access rights?? Any pointers are welcome.

Thanks,
Abhishek

[MFGF]

Hi,

Groups can be set up by a C8 Administrator in the Cognos namespace within Cognos 8, if necessary.  Users from your Authentication provider can then be allocated to these groups.

Once these are set up, permissions can be granted or denied for these on objects within Cognos Connection - just find the relevant folder (or report), go to the Properties dialog, then across to the Permissions tab.  You can grant or deny Traverse, Read, Execute, Write or Set Policy permissions as appropriate.

MF.

[dbamgr]

I would appreciate if someone can walk me through the steps in setting up user security in Cognos 8.4. It is just confusing? I have set Anonymous = False in Cognos Configuration and remove Everyone in from all the Cognos default groups. Now I need to assign the proper security and roles to the users. Is it better to set up security based on AD groups or Cognos groups? What is the difference and meaning between permission and capabilities?

I would like to set up user groups by department, eg. Sales, Analytics, Finance and each department can only run their own reports. In each department, most users can only run reports but a few can create their own reports. Eventually I would also like to implement data security in reports, depending on their access, users can only see specific information in the reports.

Cognos 8.4 Default Roles do not fit in this picture. Because then each user can see other department report also.  Since I need security based on Departement, so may be create seperate User groups for different departments (Sales Report Author, Sales Modeler, Finance Report Auther, etc). This will make applying data/object/package security easy.

Any input is much appreciated if some one provide me the detail Cognos8.4 security documentation how to do that and remove all the default role properly.

[MFGF]

Hmmm.  This seems to be a duplicate post.  Please try to keep topics in a single post where possible.

Thanks,

MF.