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 Oracle InForm study.
In the following table, some groups are described as custom groups added by the Oracle 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.
Oracle InForm reporting group | Cognos namespace group or role | Provides these permissions |
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Ad Hoc Reporting Users | Query Users | Can run the Cognos Reporting utility. Users also have the same rights as members of the Cognos Analytics Consumers namespace role. |
Authors | Authors |
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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 Oracle 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 |
|
Publishers | Publishers | Can create, change, schedule, or delete all content, including reports (Cognos Reporting) 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 Oracle 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 Oracle InForm application. |
Sponsor Users | Sponsor Users | Access to all Oracle InForm standard reports, except password-related data. Users are
automatically assigned to this group based on their user type.
Custom group added by the Oracle 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 Oracle 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 Oracle InForm application. |
User Info Data Users | User Info Data Users | Access to user data except password related data.
Custom group added by the Oracle InForm application. |
Parent topic: Authorization on the reporting server