Customizing the welcome page in Cognos Connection

For hiding links the "Manage Cognos Content" link edit the following file.

In the : <install directory>/templates/ps/portal/welcome/welcome.xml file comment out or remove the following line.

<tool name="ManageCognosContent" type="cognos" />

An HTML comment is like so,

<!-- <tool name="ManageCognosContent" type="cognos" /> -->

Restart Cognos 8 service to see the change

Tools can be permanently hidden be removing the relevant tool tag from the welcome.xml file. If a tool is not present in the welcome.xml file, it will not show up as a link in the welcome page (even with the appropriate capabilities).