Default reporting groups

As part of the initial Reporting and Analysis setup, the pfrinit utility imports the PFRsetupTrial_<lang>.xml file, which loads the following predefined reporting groups into the Cognos namespace for an InForm study.

In the following table, some groups are described as custom groups added by the InForm application. By default, these groups have no corresponding group or role in the Cognos namespace. The groups are added to the Cognos namespace by the pfrinit utility.

Default reporting groups

InForm reporting group	Cognos namespace group or role	Provides these permissions
Ad Hoc Reporting Users	Query Users	Can run the Query Studio utility. Users also have the same rights as members of the Cognos Analytics Consumers namespace role.
Authors	Authors	In Report Studio—Authors can create, edit, or run reports that use clinical or operational model packages. Authors cannot create, edit, or run reports that contain custom HTML and/or custom SQL. In Cognos Connection—Authors can run reports that use clinical or operational model packages. Authors cannot run reports that contain custom HTML and/or custom SQL.
No equivalent group	Consumers	Can run reports in the Public folders. These reports can be Standard Reports or custom reports that users create. Every user that has the InForm Reports rights group right is by default a member of the Consumers group. This group is visible only as a Cognos namespace role.
Directory Administrators	Directory Administrators	Can view Groups and Roles, but cannot view the Capabilities. The ability to make any changes to Cognos Capabilities and Cognos Groups and Roles have been removed from this group. Can accept only InForm Support user types. Sponsor or Site users can no longer be added to this group.
Publishers	Publishers	Can create, change, schedule, or delete all content, including reports (Query Studio or Report Studio) to a Public folder. When users in the Publishers group run a report in a Public folder, their prompt selections are saved with the report.
Report Administrators	Report Administrators	Can administer permissions for all public content including folders and reports.
Server Administrators	Server Administrators	Can accept only InForm Support user types. Sponsor or Site users can no longer be added to this group.
Site Users	Site Users	Access to all Standard Reports except for by User reports. Users are automatically assigned to this group based on their user type. Custom group added by the InForm application.
Sponsor Users	Sponsor Users	Access to all InForm standard reports, except password-related data. Users are automatically assigned to this group based on their user type. Custom group added by the InForm application. Tip: To allow sponsor users to access password data, assign the user to the Sponsor Users group and the User Admin Info Data User group.
No equivalent group	System Administrator	The superuser role in Cognos. This user has full control of every setting for every study that can be set in a given Cognos server. There is no equivalent InForm reporting group. At initial setup, all users have this right. You should identify a small group of highly trusted users and directly assign them to the Cognos namespace System Administrator role. Then, remove the Everyone group from this role.
User Admin Info Data Users	User Admin Info Data Users	Access to user data including password related data. Custom group added by the InForm application.
User Info Data Users	User Info Data Users	Access to user data except password related data. Custom group added by the InForm application.