folder structure help

[1show.king]

Hi I saw you were online and thought I'd ask you a question I have. We are currently running 4 cognos 10.2.1 environments, dev, tst, uat and prod. Our reports are currently residing in the package folder. If I take the reports out from the package folder and paste them in a new folder under will it affect the reports, batch jobs, schedules, users, roles, groups, distribution list and agents? I want to do this in all 4 environments. Also, we have 2 instances of Framework manager both connected to DEV. After changing the folders, if I change the Gateway URI and dispatcher URI to point to UAT, would that break the package?
Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You

[cognos810]

Hello 1show.king,
No, moving the reports out from within the package and moving to any other location will not break the report to package connection.
Changing the Gateway URI and dispatcher URI in FM configuration will NOT break the package either.

-Cognos810

[1show.king]

Great! thanks for you assistance. So it will not break jobs, agents, users, groups, roles or anything right. We are staying in the same environment and all we are doing is creating new folders for better organization. No import/export of any kind.

[cognos810]

Yes, correct. One thing to keep checking while doing this activity is to see the privileges on each of the new folders. If you create a new folder, under its permissions tab if "Override the access permissions acquired from the parent entry" checkbox is UN-checked then the newly created folder will acquire its permissions from its parent folder/package.
If you are creating the folder inside the package itself and "Override the access permissions acquired from the parent entry" is UN-Checked, the folder will acquire the permissions and privileges supplied for the package. So, thats one place to watch out for.

One other thing, do not copy and paste the reports in a new folder and then delete the original copies. Instead create the folder first and then CUT and PASTE the original reports within them. Basically, perform a move rather than a copy paste. This will help in keeping drill through connections intact, in case you have drill-throughs.

-Cognos810