​Customizing Cognos Analytics across specific roles. 

Hi,
Is it possible to enable a specific extension dependent on the Cognos group or role?
In Cognos 11.1.1 you can set the login-page, home view and customize a lot of things based on role. Except the extensions.

For example:
We would like to use the Image Gallary extension, however, the displayed images must be variabel based on Cognos role. So if a user has the role "Sales" , the image gallery shows the images of the sales department. The same for "Finance", "Logistics", etc.

Because it isn't possible to set extensions per Cognos role, making a extension for each department wouldn't work. Is there a way to solve this problem in Javascript?

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Erik
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#CognosAnalyticswithWatson

You can fetch the groups a user is a member of through the URL:

https://yourserver.com/ibmcognos/bi/v1/users/~/identity

(if you run Cognos from /ibmcognos)

Using that information you could probably load images from a different URL. (I haven't looked at the image gallery code)


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Reinier Battenberg
https://github.com/CognosExt
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Reinier,
Thank you for the response.
The extensions are JSON and not JavaScript, so my conceived solution will not work unfortunately.

So I'm still looking for another solution.

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Erik
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-07-2019 04:49 AM
From: Reinier Battenberg
Subject: Enable specific extensions for a Cognos role

You can fetch the groups a user is a member of through the URL:

https://yourserver.com/ibmcognos/bi/v1/users/~/identity

(if you run Cognos from /ibmcognos)

Using that information you could probably load images from a different URL. (I haven't looked at the image gallery code)


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Reinier Battenberg
https://github.com/CognosExt
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