Delete a User Profile

You can delete user profiles from the content store. This is useful if you are deleting a user using your third-party authentication provider. You may first want to delete the user profile from the content store so that it no longer uses storage space.

You should delete the user profile from Cognos 8 before you delete the user in the associated namespace. After you delete the user from the authentication provider, the associated user information no longer appears in Cognos 8 and you cannot manage the user profile by deleting user profiles using Cognos Administration.

If the user account was already deleted from the associated namespace, you can use content store maintenance to find, and optionally remove, all associated user account information from Cognos 8.

If a user with a deleted user profile logs on, an account is created using defaults. If a user is logged on when you delete the user profile, the user’s passport expires and the logon page appears.

Before you delete a user profile, you may want to view the content to ensure that you are not deleting anything important.

You can work only with profiles of users who logged on at least once. When users have logged on, there is a date displayed in the Modified column.

You must have the required permissions to access Cognos Administration functionality. See Secured Functions and Features. To delete a user profile, you must have write access to the parent object.

Steps

1. Start Cognos Connection.

2. In the upper-right corner, click Launch, Cognos Administration.

3. On the Security tab, click Users, Groups, and Roles.

4. Click the namespace that contains the user.

5. Find the user whose user profile you want to delete. You can use the Search feature to find a user .

6. In the Actions column, click More.

7. Click Delete this user’s profile.

8. Click OK.