thank you for the update. I was blind and only looking for the options for the on-demand toolbar. :)
GEMÜ Gebr. Müller Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG
Original Message:
Sent: Fri May 02, 2025 09:56 AM
From: Steve Caputo
Subject: Extra Filter Icon in Cognos 12.0.4
Hi Srini, Robert,
In fact it is possible to hide the Show filters button using the Feature customization for a role. For Interactive-viewer reports, menu options that can be hidden are found in the Reporting section. In particular for this case, uncheck the Show filters option found under Reporting > Collections > Toolbar.
Here is a link to the documentation about role-based Feature customization (to hide/show elements in the UI): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.x?topic=roles-examples-hiding-menu-options-feature
(For users that belong to multiple roles, the profile with highest priority is applied. You can increase the priority for the role on the Customization tab under Advanced).
After the changes are applied, log out / log in as the user who is a member of the affected role. Now the Show filters button will no longer appear in the Reporting toolbar.
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Steve Caputo
Original Message:
Sent: Tue April 29, 2025 08:04 AM
From: Robert Dostal
Subject: Extra Filter Icon in Cognos 12.0.4
Hi Srini,
then there is no way to hide the filters area in the report I'm aware of. The On-Demand Toolbar can be hidden in properties of roles, but that does not hide the filters pane as well:

The only hint I have is to follow these instructions here and look if you can find the UI element and its ID.
Determine the id of a user interface object
You need to determine the id of an existing user interface element when you create extensions that exclude features or items, or that add menu items to an existing menu.
Procedure
1. If you are running Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 or later, follow these steps:
a) Open the Windows Services window and stop the IBM Cognos service.
b) Open the file installation_location\wlp\usr\servers\cognosserver\bootstrap.properties.
c) Add the following line:
disableXSRFCheck=true
d) Save the file.
e) Restart the IBM Cognos service.
2. Sign in to your IBM Cognos Analytics server.
3. Type the following URL in a web browser: http://<server_name>:<port>/bi/v1/perspectives/<view> where <view> is the view (home, authoring, dashboard, or modeller) that contains the user interface object.
A JSON file is returned that contains a description of all the user interface elements in the view.
4. Search for the hover text for the user interface element.
The id and featureId of the user interface items are displayed following the hover text.
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Robert Dostal
Team Leader BI
GEMÜ Gebr. Müller Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG
Ingelfingen
Original Message:
Sent: Tue April 29, 2025 07:03 AM
From: SRINIVASULU Naidu
Subject: Extra Filter Icon in Cognos 12.0.4
Hi Marc Reed,
Thanks for the response , Enable on-demand Toolbar option disabled in the Properties and still i am getting Filter icon in the viewer, Could you please let me know how to disable the Filter icon

Thanks,
Srini
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SRINIVASULU Naidu
Original Message:
Sent: Tue April 29, 2025 01:54 AM
From: Marc Reed
Subject: Extra Filter Icon in Cognos 12.0.4
Not an answer to the original question, but in case future readers find this useful...
A similar way to remove interactivity, but keep the CA11/12 look and feel is to use the interactive toolbar toggle switch that is also found in the report properties.

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Marc Reed
Reporting Lead
Original Message:
Sent: Mon April 28, 2025 10:35 AM
From: Robert Dostal
Subject: Extra Filter Icon in Cognos 12.0.4
Hi,
the first thing that comes to my mind is to deactivate the full intractivity. Go to Report-> Report and then to the properties pane:
Keep in mind that this renders the report in a different view mode. Interactive visualizations (version 11.1) are not supported anymore.
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Robert Dostal
Team Leader BI
GEMÜ Gebr. Müller Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG
Ingelfingen
Original Message:
Sent: Mon April 28, 2025 09:57 AM
From: SRINIVASULU Naidu
Subject: Extra Filter Icon in Cognos 12.0.4
Hi Team,
Could you please help me how to hide below filter icon in the Viewer

Thanks,
Srini
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SRINIVASULU Naidu
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