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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: Nithesh UC on 10 Jan 2014 07:30:58 AM

Title: Is there any option to allow the specified users to download report in cognos?
Post by: Nithesh UC on 10 Jan 2014 07:30:58 AM
Hello every one,

Is there any option to allow the specified set of users to download the report in cognos?
In our cognos environment, we have already modified the system.xml files, and we have blocked the download option in cognos viewer. But now requirement has come, asking us to allow the download option for set of specified users. Any one got a clue on this, pls. help us.


Thanks,
UCN
Title: Re: Is there any option to allow the specified users to download report in cognos?
Post by: simon.hodgkiss on 14 Jan 2014 08:11:42 AM
Create a custom group or role like "Report Download Users", and show the <RV_TOOLBAR_BUTTONS_DOWNLOAD/> user interface element only to the members of this group\role as per the related topic in the infocenter guide:

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


You could then enable the 'downloadable' attribute again - assuming you hid it as per the Infocenter guide:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r1m0/topic/com.ibm.swg.im.cognos.ug_cra.10.1.0.doc/ug_cra_id37146CustomizeReportFormatsinCognosConnectiona.html#CustomizeReportFormatsinCognosConnectionandCognosViewer

hope this gives you something to go on.

Simon