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How to prevent users from saving report output views in Cognos

QUESTIONS

How can users be prevented from saving report output views of Cognos reports? These views become available for other users and this can become quite confusing.

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ANSWER

There is no feature in Cognos that would allow to disable this functionality. But for most users (except admins or report developers) write access to the report and to public folders can be removed. Then they can save the report view only into their private 'My Folders' section. As a consequence, they can no longer create saved report views in folders accessible to others.