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Question
How do you restrict users based on their License Roles in Cognos 8?
Answer
The description and matrix below describe one possible approach to specifying capabilities and permissions in Cognos 8 based on the license model.
There are 8 license roles:
- BI Administrator - This role is aimed at IT administrator users who need to administer server environments, create and maintain metadata and create and maintain all types of business intelligence on behalf of their organization.
- BI Professional - This role is aimed at technical users who need to create and maintain all types of business intelligence content on behalf of their organization.
- Professional Author - This role is aimed at technical users who need to create new reports on behalf of the organization and test them.
- Business Manager - This role is aimed at business users who need to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively, and need to manage corporate performance through the use of metrics.
- Business Author - This role is aimed at business users who need to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively, and need to create new reports.
- Business Analyst - This role is aimed at business users who need to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively, and need to perform interactive analysis.
- BI Consumer - This role is aimed at users who will view scheduled reports and run reports interactively through the Cognos Connection portal.
- BI Recipient - This role is aimed at users who will need to view scheduled reports through the Cognos Connection portal.
Cognos 8 License Role | Series 7 User Class | Cognos 8 Namespace | Studio Access | Characteristics |
BI Administrator | Root User Class | Directory Administrator | All Studios, All capabilities | Includes Framework Manager and OLAP builder |
BI Professional | Report Authors Class, Metrics Author, Event Author | Authors, Metrics Authors, Event Author | All Studios | |
Professional Author | Report Authors Class | Authors | Portal, Query, Report | |
Business Manager | Metrics Author | Metrics Authors | Portal, Metrics | |
Business Author | Query User Class | Query Users | Portal, Query | |
Business Analyst | Analysis User | Analysis Users | Portal, Analysis | |
BI Consumer | Consumer Users | Consumers | Portal | No Metrics Watch List. Event Newsitems OK. Metrics Package Content |
BI Recipient | Recipient Users | deny write, execute and set policy for public folders for Recipient Users | Portal | No Metric Watch List No Event Newsitems Metrics Package Content View pre-run reports |
For further information or clarification, please refer to your Cognos Sales Representative.
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