Copy a User Profile
You may want to copy a user profile. This is useful
in the following situations:
A user changes names and you are setting
up an account in the new name.
A user moves to another namespace or your organization changes
namespaces and you must set up new accounts.
You are creating many new similar user accounts.
If you plan to delete the source user using your third-party
authentication provider, copy the user account information before
you delete it. After you delete the user, the user no longer appears
in Cognos 8 and you cannot copy the user’s account information.
When you copy a user profile, trusted credentials are not copied.
You can only work with profiles of users who have logged in 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 copy user profiles, you must have write access to the namespaces
for both the source and target users.
Steps
Start Cognos Connection.
In the upper-right corner, click Launch, Cognos
Administration.
On the Security tab, click Users,
Groups, and Roles.
Click the namespace that contains the source user (the
user you want to copy from).
Find the source user. You can use the Search feature
to find a user 
.
Click Select the target user.
The Select the user page appears.
Click the namespace that contains the target user (the
user you want to copy to).
Tip: You can select only the namespaces that you have
write access to.
Select the target user and click OK.
Select one or more of the following profile settings that
you want to copy: Preferences, Portal
tabs, or Personal folders content.
If required, select the Delete the source user’s
profile after the copy completes check box.
Click Copy.
