Setting home page for different user Groups

[Tsunami]

By default, Cognos connection shows the "Public Folders" tab when a user logs in.  Is there anyway to set a certain portal as the home page of a particular user group without physically going to their machine? 

There are some users that only need to see what's in the portal and nothing else.  I would prefer that the 'Public Folders' tab not even show up.

Thanks.

[Cinu8]

HI
YOU CAN CREATE A PORTAL TAB AND ASSING TO THE USER
YOU CAN ALSO REMOVE PUBLIC FOLDER TAB FROM USERS PROFILE
GO TO AD NAMESPACE AND SELECT THE USER AND CLICK ON PROPERTIES THEN GO TO PORTAL TABS
AND YOU CAN EDIT THE PROTAL TABS OF THE USERS

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS WORKS

CINU

[francois]

I suppose he was talking about a mass change.

[redmist]

This is how i implemented it although in my case i did this before adding any users to the system. This would not work if users have already been added to the Cognos namespace

1. Add all the tabs to the default user's profile
2. Give proper permission to each tab so that only the required groups has access to the tab
3. Now users will see data in only the tabs they have access to. But they can still see the other tabs just that there is no data.
4. To remove that modify the system.xml file
   <param name="hideInaccessibleTabs">false</param> 
                                  TO
   <param name="hideInaccessibleTabs">true</param> 

[nfldbunker]

hi i am loomking at doing something similar. What i am hoping to achieve is a cognos web page. This web page would contain links to organizational cognos information,what is happening such as datasources, report listing links, training links to internal developed data sources, links to online webforms for report development, access to data requests. This would be the developeddefault portal tab all users would see - making public folder be kind of like hidden but still available.

[Tsunami]

This is how i implemented it although in my case i did this before adding any users to the system. This would not work if users have already been added to the Cognos namespace

1. Add all the tabs to the default user's profile
2. Give proper permission to each tab so that only the required groups has access to the tab
3. Now users will see data in only the tabs they have access to. But they can still see the other tabs just that there is no data.
4. To remove that modify the system.xml file
   <param name="hideInaccessibleTabs">false</param> 
                                  TO
   <param name="hideInaccessibleTabs">true</param> 

Redmist, I'm not sure what you mean by 'default user's profile'.  Are you talking about the "everyone" or "All Authenticated Users" groups?

EDIT: I found it, it was up in the toolbar of the Cognos namespace.

[Tsunami]

Ok, I've made the changes as Redmist suggested.  However, I noticed that I can still add the other portals even though they don't show up initially.  Am I going to have to go to each portal and deny access?  That seems like it would be rather tedious...is there another way around this?

[redmist]

Tsunami,

I did not fully understand your question. I will try to explain how i have secured my portal tabs and the drawback with this method.

I have tabs TabA and TabB. I now create 2 roles/groups GrpA and GrpB.
GrpA will have access to TabA and GrpB will have access to TabB.
Let us assume there were 20 users who were accessing these portal tabs. After couple of months you decide to add another tab TabC.
Now even if you add GrpA to the permissions of TabC, the users will not see the tab by default. They will have to go to their preferences and add them manually or the Administrator will have to add it for each user

[Tsunami]

Redmist,

Thanks for clarifying.  I still have the problem of the users being able to add portals (portals that I have not granted permission for them to use).  I'm wondering if I'm supposed to got to all the other portals and deny them access so they can't see them.  However, having to do this does not seem very effecient to me.  I feel like I may missing something in regards to setting up the access permissions.

[redmist]

You can always hide the New Page icon by modifying system.xml which would mean none of the users can create a new portal tab.

[xplorerdev]

This is how i implemented it although in my case i did this before adding any users to the system. This would not work if users have already been added to the Cognos namespace

1. Add all the tabs to the default user's profile
2. Give proper permission to each tab so that only the required groups has access to the tab
3. Now users will see data in only the tabs they have access to. But they can still see the other tabs just that there is no data.
4. To remove that modify the system.xml file
   <param name="hideInaccessibleTabs">false</param> 
                                  TO
   <param name="hideInaccessibleTabs">true</param>

Redmist..excellent..thanks a lot..very specific steps and it works like a charm  :)