You may want to copy a user profile.
Copying a user profile
is useful in the following situations:
- A user changes names and you are setting up an account in the
new name.
- A user moves to another namespace or your organization changes
namespaces and you must set up new accounts.
- You are creating many new similar user accounts.
If you plan to delete the source user in your authentication
provider, copy the user account information before you delete it.
After you delete the user, the user no longer appears in IBM® Cognos® software
and you cannot copy the user's account information.
You can
only work with profiles of users who have logged in at least once.
When users log on, a date is displayed in the Modified column
and the user name changes into a link.
Before you begin
To copy user profiles, you must have write permissions
for the namespaces for both the source and target users.
Note: When
you copy a user profile, trusted credentials are not copied.
Procedure
- In IBM Cognos Connection, in the upper-right corner,
click Launch, IBM Cognos Administration.
- On the Security tab, click Users,
Groups, and Roles.
- Click the namespace that contains the source user (the
user you want to copy from).
Tip: You can select
only the namespaces that you have write access to.
- Find the source user. You can use the Search feature
to find a user Searching for entries using name, description, and name or description.
- In the Actions column for the source
user, click More.
- In the Perform an action page, click Copy
this user's profile.
- In the Copy the user profile page,
click Select the target user and navigate to
find the target user.
- After you have selected the target user, in the Copy
the user profile page, select one or more of the following
profile settings that you want to copy: Preferences, Portal
tabs and personal folders content, or Personal
folders content.
- If required, select the Delete the source user's
profile after the copy completes check box.
- Click Copy.
