I have been using the blogpost below to make a new custom start page in 11.2.4.  The Main feature I like is the custom tabs examples found there and got them mostly working to override the base "home' perspective.   Does anyone have an idea how I could make additional ones and assign to user groups so that the different groups see a different start page using those same tab features?  I assume I would need a different view/perspective and override that similar to 11.1.7 but that idea does not seem to work, my guess is that i need some sort of new base "home" page to override but no idea where i would get that.

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/tim-aston1/2021/04/06/customizing-the-cognos-analytics-112-home-page

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Chris Stadler
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Hi Chris,

You can use the roles in Cognos, to customize what the portal look like and contain for the user that have the roles you customize.


Br
René


#ibmchampion​

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René Kent Nielsen
Brand manager
CogniTech A/S
Herning
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So in the example provided by IBM we have this custom extension that override perspective home.   In managing of users I cannot control who gets that extension, how I would do it in other versions prior to 11.2, is make a new home page and perspective("new"), and then could assign that home page to someone and any extensions that overrode that "new" perspective would show.   That doesn't appear to work in this version.  If I override the home page with a sample page and "new" perspective this extension has no effect on it even after changing the perspective target.  I can change other features about the look of the portal as you mentioned, but our constant and consistent issue with COGNOS is users hate the look and navigation of it.  Using this extension below I finally had some ability to explode out folders, and make important content right at their fingertips with the tabs.  However, if I can't customize the tabs to specific roles and namespaces then this isn't nearly as useful as I thought.

"name": "CustomizedTab",
  "extensions": [
  {
    "perspective": "home",
    "features": [
    {

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Chris Stadler
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed February 01, 2023 06:47 AM
From: René Kent Nielsen
Subject: Multiple Custom Start Pages in 11.2.4

Hi Chris,

You can use the roles in Cognos, to customize what the portal look like and contain for the user that have the roles you customize.


Br
René


#ibmchampion​

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René Kent Nielsen
Brand manager
CogniTech A/S
Herning
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Hi Chris,

Under roles you able to enable and disable features, from here you can control tabs in your extension.


Br 
Rene

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René Kent Nielsen
Brand manager
CogniTech A/S
Herning
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed February 01, 2023 08:24 AM
From: Chris Stadler
Subject: Multiple Custom Start Pages in 11.2.4

So in the example provided by IBM we have this custom extension that override perspective home.   In managing of users I cannot control who gets that extension, how I would do it in other versions prior to 11.2, is make a new home page and perspective("new"), and then could assign that home page to someone and any extensions that overrode that "new" perspective would show.   That doesn't appear to work in this version.  If I override the home page with a sample page and "new" perspective this extension has no effect on it even after changing the perspective target.  I can change other features about the look of the portal as you mentioned, but our constant and consistent issue with COGNOS is users hate the look and navigation of it.  Using this extension below I finally had some ability to explode out folders, and make important content right at their fingertips with the tabs.  However, if I can't customize the tabs to specific roles and namespaces then this isn't nearly as useful as I thought.

"name": "CustomizedTab",
  "extensions": [
  {
    "perspective": "home",
    "features": [
    {

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Chris Stadler
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed February 01, 2023 06:47 AM
From: René Kent Nielsen
Subject: Multiple Custom Start Pages in 11.2.4

Hi Chris,

You can use the roles in Cognos, to customize what the portal look like and contain for the user that have the roles you customize.


Br
René


#ibmchampion​

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René Kent Nielsen
Brand manager
CogniTech A/S
Herning