Authors

Represents the set of users who act as report authors. The members of this group can navigate Public Folders, and to read, write and execute objects contained within Public Folders.

Authors have the capabilities canUseAdvancedDashboardFeatures, canUseAnalysisStudio, canUseCognosViewer, canUseEventStudio, canUseInteractiveDashboardFeatures, canUseQueryStudio, canUseReportStudio and canUseScheduling.

Initial Membership: Everyone

Properties

searchPath: CAMID(":Authors")
objectClass: bibus » role
parent: Cognos
displaySequence: —
iconURI: —

The following table lists the security objects and permissions that comprise the policies for the Authors object.

Table 1. Policies for the Authors object.
securityObject	permissions
Directory Administrators	X R Sp T W
Authors	X R T
All Authenticated Users	R T

What's new

New in Version 10.1.0 — Object Documentation Updates: The documentation now describes the correct search path property value for this object.