Customizing IBM Cognos Connection
You can do the following to customize IBM® Cognos® Connection.
- Add or Hide User Interface Elements Based on Groups and Roles
You can customize the IBM Cognos Connection user interface based on the group and role membership. - Hide and Disable the New URL Button
Hiding UI elements such as toolbar buttons allows you to declutter the UI, but hiding alone will not disable the functionality behind the UI element. - Limit the Number of Entries That Users Can Cut, Copy, and Paste
You can limit the number of entries that users can cut, copy, and paste to improve the performance of IBM Cognos software. - Retaining target object ID when copying objects
In IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, in some situations, you can change the default behavior for copying objects. You might change the default for example, to maintain a job that is scheduled to run a report. - Customizing Object Actions
You can customize actions available for objects, such as packages, folders, URLs, jobs, queries reports, or report views, in IBM Cognos Connection. - Restrict Content Browsing
By default, IBM Cognos Connection and Query Studio users can browse Public Folders starting at the root content folder (/content). - Implementing a Custom Welcome Page
You can create a custom Welcome page and configure IBM Cognos Connection to use this page instead of the default page provided by IBM Cognos software. - Customize Report Output Formats in IBM Cognos Connection and IBM Cognos Viewer
You can specify which formats are available for users to view their reports. For example, you may want to prevent users from exporting reports in Excel. - Configure the Document Lookup Table
The document format lookup table is used to look up file extensions when downloading document objects. Most browsers require file extensions to determine which program to use to open the file. - Hide Inaccessible Tabs Referenced in the User Account Preferences
By default, IBM Cognos Connection shows all tabs referenced in the user account preferences regardless of the user's access permissions for the associated pages.
Parent topic: Customizing the Functionality of IBM Cognos Software