How to update infoview preferences for all CLARITY users

Products

• CLARITY PPM FOR ITG
• CLARITY PPM FEDERAL
• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• Clarity PPM SaaS
• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

Description:

How to update infoview preferences for all CLARITY users:

You can update all infoview users preferences with one single procedure instead of asking users to login and change it manually.

Solution:

1. Go to: <BO installation directory>\Dashboard and Analytics 12.0\setup
   
   Under this path you will find two files prefsCopyUtil.jar and prefsCopyUtil.properties.
   Open the prefsCopyUtil.properties in an editor (ie: notepad). The file looks something like this:
   
   # The CMS to use.
   CMS=<CMS name>
   # Administrator user s password.
   AdminPassword=<password>
   # User to copy preferences from.
   SourceUser=administrator
   # All users in this group will have their preferences changed to be a copy of
   # the SourceUser s preferences.
   TargetGroup=<target group name>
   
   
2. Update fileprefsCopyUtil.properties with right settings, see below an example:
   
   # The CMS to use.
   CMS=MyBOServerName
   
   # Administrator user s password.
   AdminPassword=MyBOAdminPassword
   # User to copy preferences from.
   SourceUser=administrator
   # All users in this group will have their preferences changed to be a copy of
   # the SourceUser s preferences.
   TargetGroup=CA-PPM-Reporting-User
   
   
3. Copy these two files (prefsCopyUtil.jar and prefsCopyUtil.properties) to your Java bin directory:
   
   <BO installation directory>\Business Objects\javasdk\bin
   
   
4. Open a command prompt and navigate to the Java bin path. Run this command:
   
   java -jar PrefsCopyUtil.jar PrefsCopyUtil.properties
   
   It should show something like that:
   
   [...]
   Retrieved preferences for administrator.
   Copying to all users in group CA-PPM-Reporting-User.
   Copied preferences to user admin.
   Copied preferences to user monitor_admin.
   Copied preferences to user csk.admin.
   Copied preferences to user Test.
   Preferences were copied successfully.
   [...]
   
   
5. Verify users under "CA-PPM-Reporting-User" group have the same InfoView Preferences than user administrator

Environment

Release: ESPCLA99000-13.2-Clarity-Extended Support Plus
Component: