Overview

Cosmos environments represent separate areas in Cosmos that each contain their own:

• Data Model
• Reports
• User
• Security

This can be helpful in scenarios where a company wants to have a separate Development and Production environment so they can make changes to the data model and/or create new reports, test them in Development, and then publish them so that they can be imported into the Production environment. Another example could be a company that has different business units in the United States, Germany, and Ireland, and they want to create different Cosmos sites with control over which BC tenant feed into each environment and which users have access to each one. 

Details

Environments can be a very useful way to create separate Cosmos portals, all within the same environment, to handle a wide variety of useful scenarios. Environments are created and managed in the Administration Portal by someone who has the Tenant Administration role. Once they are created, content such as reports and data models can be created within an environment and then published so that the content can then be imported into another environment. 

Users can see the environments that they have access to by click on their Profile icon in the upper-right corner of any page:

The environment with the box outlining it represents the current environment that the user is in and the user can click on any other environment name to go directly to that environment.