Hi,
i can’t figure this one out… where is the option hidden in Cognos Connection to add a new portal tab to 1000+ user profile? I only can find the option to add the new portal tab to 1 user profile at the time. ???
I read something about SDK code but i am not a programmer…
i believe i have seen some 3rd party tool with this functionallity. But i do not recall which tool… 
i’ll see if i can find some SDK sample code or link
I found this piece of code on my machine. It is in Csharp not JAVA. But the point is you can do it with the SDK of Cognos.
// Licensed Material - Property of IBM
// © Copyright IBM Corp. 2003, 2009
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using cognosdotnet_2_0;
namespace AddPortalPage
{
public class Class1
{
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
static contentManagerService1 cmService;
//modify current Namespace
static string currentNamespace = "CAMID(\"LDAP\")";
//modify diaptcher uri
static string endPointURL = "http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch";
//modify the pagelet search path value
static string myPageLet = "/content/folder[@name='Samples']/pagelet[@name='Test']";
//modify name space
static string namespaceId = "namespaceId";
//modify user name
static string userName = "Username";
//modify password
static string password = "Password";
static void Main()
{
cmService = new contentManagerService1();
cmService.Url = endPointURL;
if (logon(cmService,userName,password,namespaceId))
{
try
{
addPortalToAllUsers(myPageLet);
}
catch (Exception er)
{ }
logoff(cmService);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine( "Log on failed" );
}
}
static bool logon(contentManagerService1 cmService,string sInUID, string sInPWD, string sInLDAPNameSpace)
{
bool bSuccess = true;
try
{
StringBuilder credentialXML = new StringBuilder("<credential>" );
credentialXML.AppendFormat( "<namespace>{0}</namespace>", sInLDAPNameSpace );
credentialXML.AppendFormat( "<username>{0}</username>", sInUID );
credentialXML.AppendFormat( "<password>{0}</password>", sInPWD );
credentialXML.Append( "</credential>" );
string encodedCredentials = credentialXML.ToString ();
xmlEncodedXML xmlEncodedCredentials = new xmlEncodedXML();
xmlEncodedCredentials.Value = encodedCredentials;
cmService.logon(xmlEncodedCredentials, null );
}
catch( Exception e )
{
bSuccess = false;
Console.WriteLine( e.ToString() );
}
return bSuccess;
}
static void logoff(contentManagerService1 cmService)
{
cmService.logoff();
}
public static void addPortalToAllUsers(string portalPageSearchPath)
{
//we get alll the users in the content store- the searchPath can be modified to narrow down the users that will be affected
baseClass[] bc;
propEnum[] props = new propEnum[] { propEnum.portalPages, propEnum.searchPath };
string searchPath = currentNamespace + "//account";
searchPathMultipleObject mo = new searchPathMultipleObject();
mo.Value = searchPath;
bc = cmService.query(mo, props, new sort[] { }, new queryOptions());
//we get the object in the contentstore that represents the page to be added
baseClass[] bc2;
propEnum[] props2 = new propEnum[] { propEnum.searchPath };
string searchPath2 = portalPageSearchPath;
searchPathMultipleObject mo2 = new searchPathMultipleObject();
mo2.Value = searchPath2;
bc2 = cmService.query(mo2, props2, new sort[] { }, new queryOptions());
//add the portal page to all the users
foreach (account currentUser in bc)
{
//check if the page is not part of the portalPages collection of the current user
bool portalPageAlreadyExist = false;
//get the current portal pages of the current user
baseClass[] accountPortalPages = ((account)currentUser).portalPages.value;
for (int i = 0; i < accountPortalPages.Length; i++)
{
if (currentUser.portalPages.value[i].searchPath.value.CompareTo(portalPageSearchPath) == 0)
{
portalPageAlreadyExist = true;
}
}
//if the page does not exist in portal page collection then add it
if (!portalPageAlreadyExist)
{
//create a new collection of portal pages
baseClass[] newPortalPages = new baseClass[accountPortalPages.Length + 1];
for (int i = 0; i < accountPortalPages.Length; i++)
{
newPortalPages[i] = accountPortalPages[i];
}
//adding the pageLetToThe collectoin of portal pages
newPortalPages[accountPortalPages.Length] = bc2[0];
baseClassArrayProp toBeUpdated = new baseClassArrayProp();
toBeUpdated.value = newPortalPages;
((account)currentUser).portalPages.value = newPortalPages;
baseClass[] a = new baseClass[1];
a[0] = (baseClass)currentUser;
try
{
baseClass[] returned = cmService.update(a, new updateOptions());
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
}
}
}
}
}