Hi all,

So, I've ran into this issue several times now, and it's kind of annoying. Whenever we need to give access to a new user, we can set them up in Security Center with their groups and domains, but we have to wait for them to finally log in before their My Content folder generates in the tree.

Is there a way an admin can get another's My Content folder to generate without having to wait for the user(s) to log in themselves?

If not, this REALLY needs to be a feature.


Thanks in advance!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Emily McAllister>,

Coolguy,

Please review following and see if this answers your question:

The My Content folder is a folder with the format ~username. It's a special folder with very specific security rules, It should not be used to share or give user any content. So, I don't see what good it would do to create one for the user.

That being said, if you create a folder with these properties, it should work:

1. Name: ~username
2. Title: User Name
3. Owner: username
4. Private (not published)


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Tamra Colangelo
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Hey Tamra,

So, in response to what your colleague told you, let's create a scenario:

You are an admin of your BI reporting at your site. A user that was using InfoAssist and creating reports, schedules, etc. under his My Content directory quits... A new user that will be replacing him comes into the picture and you need to move everything that the user that quit had developed, etc. into the new user's My Content folder that will be replacing him. Unfortunately, that new user has yet to log into WebFOCUS yet and navigate to where his/her My Content would auto-generate if they had already. So, you the admin, now have to wait, possibly wasting valuable company time, while that new user finally gets around to logging into WebFOCUS and navigating to where you need their My Content folder to generate.

There needs to be a way for an admin that does the security setup for other users to create/generate the other users' My Content directories so we can work when there's time to work on migrating/moving content from one user's folder to another's folder.

As for your suggestions to just name a folder with "~username" and then set the properties of that folder to what they need to be, AppStudio does not allow you to modify the properties of a folder like that. You get an IBFS1104 error stating invalid characters for the file name. Also, the owner/user property is disabled.

Can you return to your colleague and let him/her know this additional insight.

Thanks!

Coolguy,

Doesn't the my content folder get created at account creation? If so, then you don't need to wait for the user to login, you can create the account yourself and the my content folders should be created. In theory if my assumption is correct of course....

CoolGuy's scenario is valid. A lot of things only happen once the user signs in the first time, I think the My Content folder is only created once the user has logged in. There's surely no way that WebFOCUS security automatically creates a My Content folder inside every "domain" folder that a user has access to.

Also, I don't think you can create a folder starting with ~. I tried it from the Repository tree and get "Name cannot start with '~'. In DevStudio, The presing the ~ key does not get recognized, so I don't know how Tamra's instructions would work.

Eric,

Like Francis is saying, it only generates once the user logs in AND navigates to the specific folder for the first time. There needs to be a toggle for creation of My Content folders upon user security group assignment. That would makes things a lot better for us that have to set users up that will only ever have access to a few domains anyways.

You know... in the "old days"... being 7.x... I would just create the HTM file, folder, and copy/paste the files over... Maybe you could try something "brute force" like that? If you can figure out the complexities that is the new storage system, maybe you can insert the needed records into the database directly?

I'm not saying this is a good idea by the way... But it did work when it was all just HTM files and a folder system lol.

lol Sounds nice, for sure! If only...

Maybe one day, if I ever get that much free time, I'll try my hand at injecting a My Content folder into the repo. Good thought though!

Do you have a solution for this problem?

We are in the same boat now. We have to force the user to login to create a MyContent folder.

Not as of yet. Wish there was a way in place. Annoying, huh? haha