Opening an application from report hyperlink

[Starfish2201]

Hi Cognos-gurus,

I have a requirement in which I have a cognos report with hyperlink for certain Project ID say. Now if I click on that hyperlink it should open an existing client application for that project ID (as a parameter) showing all the details. We are using one time sign on, so the login credentials need to be passed.

Is this possible in Cognos? I have done drill-through which will open another report, but never done opening an application. Can you please help me?

Thanks a lot for your help and advice.

[MFGF]

Hi,

Is the application you want to call web-based? How does it receive parameters - via the URL? If so, you could construct an anchor tag around your Project ID item using HTML items from the toolbox, and embedding the Project ID into the URL your anchor is pointing to?

There are lots of assumptions here, because you haven't specified any details about the application you want to call or how it expects values to be passed.

Regards,

MF.

[Starfish2201]

Hi MFGF,

The application is web-based. It receives the parameter via URL. But the user's cognos loginID and password are same as the loginID and password of the web-application as its single-sign-on based. So the user should not be asked to enter his/her credentials again to login to the web-app opened from the report and it should use the credentials given while login in cognos.

Thanks for your help !!!