To grant access only to the publishing function
within IBM® Cognos® Workspace, grant traverse permissions
for the Executive Dashboard capability and execute permissions for
the Publish Dashboards to Collaboration Spaces secured function.
Procedure
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From the IBM
Cognos Analytics portal, launch
IBM Cognos Administration.
- On the Security tab, click Capabilities.
- Find and select the Executive Dashboard capability.
- Click the actions button
next to Publish Dashboards
to Collaboration Spaces, and click Set properties.
- Select the Permissions tab.
- To set access permissions explicitly for each entry, select
the Override the access permissions acquired from the parent
entry.
- For each user group, select the check box for the entry,
and in the box next to the list, select the check boxes to grant permissions
for the entry.
- To add new entries to the list, click Add and
choose how to select entries:
- To choose from available entries, click the appropriate namespace,
and then select the check boxes next to the users, groups, or roles.
- To search for entries, click Search and
in the Search string box, type the phrase you want to search for.
For search options, click Edit. Find and click
the entry that you want.
- To type the name of entries that you want to add, click Type and
type the names of groups, roles, or users using the following format,
where a semicolon (;) separates each entry: namespace/group_name;namespace/role_name;namespace/user_name;
You can then grant the appropriate permissions for each new
entry.
- Click OK.