Managing security

There are a few options to update security with MetaManager. The first option is using the Security Painter module. This module allows you to update security in bulk on objects, such as reports, report views, packages, folders, or any other Cognos Connection object.

To set the security on a set of objects, we will start by dragging-and-dropping the objects that we want to secure to the bottom section that says Objects to secure.

We next need to set the security that we want at the top. The reason they call it Security Painter is because we can take the security from one object and paint it onto other objects. We should start with the existing security of another object by dragging that object to the top area. For our example, we are going to drag the GO Sales and Retailers package to the top where it says Security to apply. When we do so, it will load the security from that GO Sales and Retailers model at the top. Refer to the following screenshot:

You can then select and...