Configuring appearance

Administrators can enable certain elements to appear in the Cognos Analytics user interface.

Procedure

  1. Go to Manage > Configuration > System, and select Appearance.
  2. Specify values, as required, for the following settings:
    Property Setting Result

    Load content by pages in Accounts

    		 Enabled(default) In Manage > People > Accounts, the list of user, group, and role entries is split into separate pages. When you manage accounts, you can navigate more quickly between pages to find entries.
    Disabled The list of entries appears as one scrollable list.
    Items per page in Accounts

    number

    Default=200

    		 If Load content by pages in Accounts is enabled, the number of namespace entries per page.
    Launch Cognos legacy UI 1 Legacy BI components are enabled. Users can access Analysis Studio, Drill-through definitions, Event Studio, Query Studio, and Cognos Workspace by clicking New New icon and then clicking Other.
    0 The Other menu does not appear.
    Enable My portal pages Enabled

    The My portal pages folder My portal pages folder iconappears under the Team content folder Team content folder icon.

    Users who had portal pages in their Cognos BI 10.x environment can migrate their content to Cognos Analytics. Their portal pages will look and operate as they did in Cognos BI 10.x.
    Disabled(default) The My portal pages folder does not appear.
  3. Click OK.

Results

The configuration changes are saved and propagated to all dispatchers. You do not need to restart the service for the changes to take effect.