.
Users can see a list of the secured functions and features available
to them in the portal in My Area 
, My Preferences, on
the Personal tab, in the Capabilities section.The secured functions and features control access to
different administration tasks and different functional areas of
the user interface in Cognos 8. Administrators can set
up access to the secured functions and features using the Capabilities page
on the Security tab in Cognos Administration .
Users can see a list of the secured functions and features available
to them in the portal in My Area , My Preferences, on
the Personal tab, in the Capabilities section.
The secured functions and features include the following.
This secured function contains the secured features that control access to the administration pages that you use to administer Cognos 8. System administrators can use this capability to delegate administration tasks to different administrators.
The secured features associated with this function are
Users can access Capabilities and User Interface Profiles on the Security tab in Cognos Administration to manage the secured functions and features and the Report Studio user interface profiles.
Users can access Content Administration on the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to administer exports, imports, index updates, consistency checks, and report updates.
Users can use the administrative functions of Cognos 8 Controller.
Users can access Data Source Connections on the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to define data sources, connections, and signons.
Users can access Distribution Lists and Contacts on the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to manage distribution lists and contacts.
Users can create new metric packages using the new metric package wizard in Cognos Connection, and access the Tools menu in Metric Studio.
Users can access Current Activities, Past Activities, Upcoming Activities and Schedules on the Status tab in Cognos Administration to monitor the server activities and manage schedules. To grant access to the scheduling functionality independently from the monitoring functionality, use the Scheduling capability.
Users can access Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor Administration Console and Cognos 8 Planning - Analyst to perform administration tasks.
Users can access Styles and Portlets on the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to manage styles and portlets.
Users can access Printers on the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to manage printers.
Users can access System on the Status tab and Dispatchers and Services on the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to configure dispatchers and services, and to manage the system.
Users can access Users, Groups and Roles on the Security tab in Cognos Administration to manage namespaces, users, groups, and roles.
This secured function controls access to Analysis Studio.
This secured function controls access to Cognos Viewer, which you use to view reports.
The secured features associated with this function are
Users can use the context menu in Cognos Viewer.
Note: To see the context menu, users must have access to both the Selection and Context Menu secured features.
Users can change the default run options.
Users can select text in lists and crosstabs.
Users can see the Cognos Viewer toolbar.
This secured function controls access to the Rules tab in My Watch Items in Cognos Connection. Use this to create and run watch rules.
This secured function controls access to Cognos 8 Controller.
This secured function controls access to Cognos 8 Data Manager.
This secured function controls access to viewing detailed error messages in the Web browser.
This secured function controls access to the drill-through functionality in Cognos 8, including the Drill-through Definitions page in Cognos Connection.
This secured function controls access to Event Studio.
This secured function controls access to Metric Studio.
The secured feature associated with this function is
Users can use the edit features of Metric Studio to edit metric content.
This secured function controls access to Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor and Cognos 8 Planning - Analyst.
This secured function controls access to the Query Studio, which you use to create simple, ad hoc reports.
The secured features associated with this function are
Users can create new reports and use the Save as option for new reports and custom views.
Users can use advanced authoring features, such as creating complex filters, formatting style, and multilingual support.
This secured function controls access to Report Studio, which you use to author professional reports.
The secured features associated with this function are
Users can author and run burst reports.
Users can create new reports, use the Save as option for new reports and report views, and change models.
Users can use the button, HTMLItem, and hyperlink elements of the report specification when authoring reports.
Users can edit the SQL statements directly in the query specification and run the query specifications that contain the edited SQL statements.
Note: Restrictions on who can use this feature are not enforced in Framework Manager. For example, a Framework Manager user who does not have User Defined SQL rights in Cognos Administration can still create a query subject and use manually created SQL queries to search a database.
This secured function controls access to the scheduling functionality for items that can be run, such as reports.
The secured feature associated with this function is
Users can set up and change the processing priority of scheduled entries.
This secured function specifies that a user or SDK application can use an inline specification.
Inline specifications are used internally by the Cognos 8 studios and some services to perform tasks. The service running the specification tests a number of capabilities to ensure that the user is entitled to use the inline specification. For more information, see the runSpecification method in the Developer Guide.
This capability is required to author Data Manager tasks.
