Its been a while since I last posted. Other items occupied my time, most notably the apple of my eye, my kind and my 9 - 5 job, which pretty much turned into a 9 - 7 due to multiple factors.
While life was passing on, this blog was never far from my mind. I always yearned to get back to writing, which, in the 21st century, is blogging :-)
A lot of interesting requests came my way over the past two years, and I'm going to try and pick the most interesting ones to talk about.
One very common request was to disable users from being able to attach report outputs via email, be it either scheduled reports or interactive reports.This is important for a variety of reasons, the most obvious one being security. If the user's email is compromized, atleast the direct report output (financial data in many cases) isn't available directly in the inbox!
This is a request with a very simple solution. Navigate to your cognos installation folder and browse to templates/ps/portal. Open the system.xml file in your favorite text editor and add the bolded section. If the bolded section already exists, just add the tag CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment.
You will need to save the system.xml file and restart cognos for this change to come into affect.
While life was passing on, this blog was never far from my mind. I always yearned to get back to writing, which, in the 21st century, is blogging :-)
A lot of interesting requests came my way over the past two years, and I'm going to try and pick the most interesting ones to talk about.
One very common request was to disable users from being able to attach report outputs via email, be it either scheduled reports or interactive reports.This is important for a variety of reasons, the most obvious one being security. If the user's email is compromized, atleast the direct report output (financial data in many cases) isn't available directly in the inbox!
This is a request with a very simple solution. Navigate to your cognos installation folder and browse to templates/ps/portal. Open the system.xml file in your favorite text editor and add the bolded section. If the bolded section already exists, just add the tag CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment.
You will need to save the system.xml file and restart cognos for this change to come into affect.
<system>
<BLAH PARAMS />
<param name="ui_hide">
<!--list of user interface elements-->
<CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment/>
</param>
</system>
