Hi,
I’ve created a new custom role with an intent to let all users that have this role create new reports using the Report Studio.
To accomplish that, I did the following:
[ul][li]for this role, I granted “Traverse” and “Execute” permissions for the “Report Studio” capability[/li]
[li]I have created one folder under the root Public folder and granted “Read”, “Write”, “Execute” and “Traverse” permissions on this folder to this role [/li][/ul]
Even so, when I login as a user that has this role and go to this new folder, I cannot see:
[ul][li]Launch -> Report Studio - is not available[/li]
[li]selecting an existing report - an option to “Open in Report Studio” is not available[/li][/ul]
However, when I go to Cognos Connection , and go to “More… -> View my permissions” on this folder - I see that the user has the “Read”, “Write”, “Execute” and “Traverse” permissions;
and when I do “More… > View my capabilities” - the user also has the Report Studio capability granted.
Is there something else I need to grant for this role to be able to create /edit reports?
The steps seems valid to me… So i expect something in the details.
The capability for report studio does have some child capabilities (see description). Are the permissions inherited? You do not need them all but does your new role have access to the capability “create\delete”?
and
can you show us (a screenshot) the capabilities your role currently has?
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Hi, Martijn,
Thank you very much for the suggestions. Yes, I did not have the “Read” (neither “Write”) permissions assigned to the role on the top-level “Report Studio” capability.
I did that - added both permissions just in case - and made sure that most of the sub-capabilities also have those rights assigned. Still no success…
I’ll try to attach some screenshots here . The first two are the settings for Report Studio capability, and “Create/Delete” sub-capability - done by an administrator user. The custom role of interest here is the "Emptoris Basic Reporting Role"
The next two are done when logged in as a “user1” - who has this role. They show his capabilities from the “My Preferences -> Personal” screen, as well as what he sees when he goes to one of the folders - you can see that there are no options to open a report in the Report studio…