IBM® Cognos® 8 Planning - Contributor Administration Guide

Chapter 2: IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor
The Planner
have rights for. In addition, multiple administrators can access different parts of the Contributor
application at the same time.
You can restrict administrative access on a per application basis so that someone who can see only
database maintenance in application A can create applications in application B.
Administrators see only those applications that they have rights to, and only those functions within
those applications.
Depending on the rights assigned to them, administrators can
● assign functional rights to other administrators
● add job servers and job server clusters to the Planning Store
● create and configure a Contributor application
● create new e.List items
● make changes to the e.list hierarchy
● assign rights to e.List items
● import actual data to the application
● amend workflow states from the Administration Console where required
● monitor the progress of jobs
Planners are responsible for entering data into the Contributor application using the web client, or
Contributor for Excel. This data is referred to as a contribution. Planners edit data only in the
selection assigned to them by the administrator. They cannot make structural changes to the
application. After data is entered, the planner can either save or submit the data. Submitted data
is forwarded to a reviewer and cannot be edited further by the planner unless the reviewer rejects
it.
The Reviewer
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A planner can be responsible for more than one e.List item and can view each e.List item individually
or view all e.List items in a single view, if configured by the administrator.
Reviewers are responsible for approving contributions submitted by one or more planners.
Reviewers can view data and see the status of all submissions they are responsible for managing at
any stage in the planning and review cycle. Reviewers can edit contributions if they have appropriate
rights.
After data is submitted, the reviewer has the following options:
● reject the data if they are not satisfied with it
Typically, a reviewer sends an email to the planner to give the reason for rejection.
● accept the data