Integrating Cognos with external portal ( .com)

[shaurya123]

Hi TechGurus,

We have a requirement where in we wish to Integrate certain set of developed reports into the external portal (.com site)

Any pointers on the same will be helpful.

Thanks,
Shaurya

[MFGF]

Any pointers on the same will be helpful.

I don't really know much about the SDK, sorry. Trying to be helpful, though - is this what you are asking for? :)



Sorry! Bad joke! :)

MF.

[Lynn]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I am sorry to report that made me laugh!

Regarding the original question, I'd say it is entirely too vague to get much more than a bad joke as response!

[Crispen Dry]

I don't really know much about the SDK, sorry. Trying to be helpful, though - is this what you are asking for? :)



Sorry! Bad joke! :)

MF.

That was truly terrible! I am starting to see why you are a muppet :)

[loufan]

I don't really know much about the SDK, sorry. Trying to be helpful, though - is this what you are asking for? :)



Sorry! Bad joke! :)

MF.

Boooooo. Terrible! SO awful I laughed at the absurdity of it! :)

[MFGF]

Wow! My joke got some laughs! Must be people out there with the same odd sense of humour as me! :)

MF.

[CognosPaul]

That was truly terrible! I am starting to see why you are a muppet :)

Crispen, I am horrified by your personal text. I would never ban the muppet, despite his muppetness, bad jokes, and occasional bouts of split personality!

Shaurya, there are a few ways of embedding reports into an external portal. The easiest way would be to simply embed the entire report as an iFrame. All of the standard Cognos functionality would work as expected.

There are a few downsides to that method.
1. If you don't have SSO set up, the user will be prompted to log in.
2. If the user doesn't have access to the Cognos server, this won't work at all.
3. iFrames are notoriously difficult to work with in JavaScript. If you need to have the report interact with other objects on your portal, you'll be tearing your hair out.

The alternatives are to use the SDK. Part of the SDK is a suite of libraries called Cognos Mashup Services. These will expose Cognos objects in a number of formats (JSON, XML, HTML, HTML Fragment), which you could then embed into your portal. The downside here is you need to pay the exorbitant SDK license fee, and you'll need a proper programmer to help get it to work.

Before we continue, do you have an SDK license? If not, then iFrame is the way to go.

[MFGF]

Crispen, I am horrified by your personal text. I would never ban the muppet, despite his muppetness, bad jokes, and occasional bouts of split personality!

I think he was just admiring my classy sense of humour :)

[shaurya123]

Thanks MF for the " pointers on the same " :P ,

We have built Iframes for this, we are able to test our dashboard successfully.

Another scenario on the same requirement where I need " some help " rather than pointers :P is

We have drill through reports from dashbaords, We need to open a pop-up for Drill thru report and hide the address bar for the pop-up window. ( new pop up window should just have report/graph)

Any suggestions or ideas on how to implement this?

Please let me know If I need to provide more info on my issue.

Regards,
Shaurya