The IBM Cognos report packages that you install on the IBM Cognos system contains the report specifications for the IBM® Unica® applications, organized into folders. For example, the folder for Interact is named "Interact Reports" and the reports specifiations are physically located in that folder on the IBM Cognos system.

For Campaign, eMessage, and Interact, you can configure permissions for groups of reports based on the folder structure in which they are physically stored on the IBM Cognos system.

To make the IBM® Unica® system aware of the report folders on the IBM Cognos system, you run the Sync Report Folder Permissions option located on the Settings menu in the IBM® Unica® interface. This option connects to the IBM Cognos system to determine which folders are present. It then creates an entry in the user permissions lists for the Campaign partitions. The entry, named Reports, appears in the permissions lists between the Logging and the System Tables entries. When you expand it, the report folder names are listed and now represent permissions.

The default setting for the new permissions is "not granted." Therefore, after you run the Sync Report Folder Permissions option, you must configure permissions for the report folders. Otherwise, no one has access to the IBM Cognos reports anymore.