IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: Cognos BI Videos - Default to User-Based Latest Period Wenling Glassman Senior Consultant IBM 19 September 2014 Business Analytics Proven Practices Team Business Analytics Proven Practices Team IBM These videos will describe techniques involving both metadata modeling and report authoring to achieve a dynamically selected latest period base on the user logged in. View more content in this series Introduction Purpose of Document These videos will describe techniques involving both metadata modeling and report authoring to achieve a dynamically selected latest period base on the user logged in. Applicability The following techniques were tested on IBM Cognos BI 10.2.1. Assumptions The following techniques assume experience with both metadata modeling in Framework Manager and report authoring in Report Studio. Overview There may be scenarios, where based on user permissions, some users may be privileged to see more time periods than other users. Using filters in the metadata model to enforce user based security and various report authoring techniques this two-part video series will illustrate how to dynamically default to the latest period a user is allowed to see based on their user ID. © Copyright IBM Corporation 2014 IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: Cognos BI Videos Default to User-Based Latest Period Trademarks Page 1 of 3 developerWorks® ibm.com/developerWorks/ Default to User-Based Latest Period - Part 1 – Framework Manager Default to User-Based Latest Period - Part 2 – Report Studio IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: Cognos BI Videos Default to User-Based Latest Period Page 2 of 3 ibm.com/developerWorks/ developerWorks® About the authors Wenling Glassman Wenling Glassmnan is a member of IBM Global Business Services Unit and a member of IBM Columbus Center for Advanced Analytics. She is actively providing services and developing solutions in the area of BI, data warehousing architecture, Cognos, and Advanced Analytics. Business Analytics Proven Practices Team Business Analytics Proven Practices Team © Copyright IBM Corporation 2014 (www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml) Trademarks (www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/trademarks/) IBM Business Analytics Proven Practices: Cognos BI Videos Default to User-Based Latest Period Page 3 of 3