Set Access to the Report Studio User Interface Profiles

To meet the needs of both regular report authors and financial report authors, Report Studio provides distinct custom user interfaces that contain reporting features relevant to these roles.

The following user interfaces are supported:

• Professional Authoring Mode

  The Professional authoring mode gives users access to the full range of Report Studio functionality. In this mode, you can create any report type, including charts, maps, lists, and repeaters, using any data source (relational or multi-dimensional).

• Express Authoring Mode

  The Express authoring mode provides a simplified and focused Report Studio interface. It is designed for non-technical users to create traditional financial and management statement reports. It only allows access to dimensionally-modeled data and uses a member-oriented data tree.

  This authoring mode supports only crosstab reports, for users who want a default financial layout, with indentation and single member insertion. A Windows-like toolbar offers buttons to easily style your reports rather than using property sheets.

  In addition, a page section and context area (similar to Analysis Studio) allow you to easily create multi-page, filtered, and prompted crosstabs.

To support the different authoring modes in Report Studio, Cognos Administration provides two User Interface Profiles named Professional and Express. Use the Professional profile to set access to the Professional mode, and the Express profile to set access to the Express mode.

If users have access to both the Professional and Express authoring modes, they can later switch between the two in Report Studio. For more information, see the Report Studio Professional Authoring User Guide.

Steps

1. In Cognos Connection, in the upper-right corner, click Launch, Cognos Administration.

2. On the Security tab, click User Interface Profiles.

3. Specify access permissions for the user interface profile you want

   • To grant access to the Professional authoring mode, click the actions button  next to Professional, and click Set properties.

   • To grant access to the Express authoring mode, click the actions button next to Express, and click Set properties.

   The Permissions page appears.

4. Select the Override the access permissions acquired from the parent entry check box.

5. In the box on the left, select the check box next to the user, group, or role for which you want to grant access to this user interface profile.

6. In the box on the right, grant execute  and traverse  permissions for the selected users, groups, or roles.

   No other permissions are required.

7. Click OK.

For more detailed information about setting access permissions, see Set Access Permissions for an Entry.