{"id":26,"date":"2010-04-08T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:38:15","slug":"calling-cognos-reports-with-url-parameters-and-removing-headers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Calling Cognos reports with URL parameters and removing headers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When building dashboards with jQuery objects, there may be issues calling the report within the Cognos Portal Pages ‘Cognos Viewer’ object. The workaround is to use the ‘HTML Viewer’ in a portal page. The HTML Viewer is actually an iFrame calling a new instance of Cognos and may require re-authentication.<\/p>\n

The method we ended up for inserting reports is as follows.<\/p>\n

1. Create the target report for the dashboard\/portal page.<\/p>\n

2. In Cognos Connection, navigate to the report and click on Properties.<\/p>\n

3. In the upper right hand corner Click on ‘View the search path, ID and URL’.<\/p>\n

4. In the pop-up info window, there is a ‘Default action URL’. Copy the contents of that box to a text editor such as Notepad++<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paste it into your text editor and It will be in this format:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/localhost:80\/cognos84\/cgi-bin\/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Samples%27%5d%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Models%27%5d%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Interactive%20Samples%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27Top%2010%20Retailers%20for%202005%27%5d&ui.name=Top%2010%20Retailers%20for%202005&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5. In the text editor
\nReplace ‘b_action=cognosViewer’
\nWith ‘b_action=xts.run&m=portal\/launch.xts&ui.tool=CognosViewer’
\n(remove single ‘quotes’)<\/p>\n

6. To remove headers, append the URL with ‘&ui=h1h2h3h4’
\nSee page 7 of the IBM PDF<\/a> for details:<\/p>\n

\"Cognos<\/a>
Cognos header labels used for removal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Completed URL to call report without headers:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/localhost:80\/cognos84\/cgi-bin\/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal\/launch.xts&ui.tool=CognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Samples%27%5d%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Models%27%5d%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Interactive%20Samples%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27Top%2010%20Retailers%20for%202005%27%5d&ui.name=Top%2010%20Retailers%20for%202005&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true&ui=h1h2h3h4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

7. Create a portal page with an ‘HTML Viewer’<\/p>\n

8. Open the page and edit the HTML Viewer properties.<\/p>\n

9. For the ‘HTML Content’ paste in your completed URL from above.<\/p>\n

10. Save and open the portal page. It should run with jQuery working and not replicate the main portal headers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When building dashboards with jQuery objects, there may be issues calling the report within the Cognos Portal Pages ‘Cognos Viewer’ object. The workaround is to use the ‘HTML Viewer’ in a portal page. The HTML Viewer is actually an iFrame calling a new instance of Cognos and may require re-authentication. The method we ended up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,37,77],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cognos","tag-8-4","tag-cognos","tag-report-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}