How Active Report having interactive behavior while offline

[inu]

HI Cognos Team,
As AR has the capability to view the report , even while we are not physically connected to the network or cognos application.
I m surprised , how it brings the data from database without connecting to the database. As far as i know a normal report fetches the data from database each time we run the report.
Does AR save all the data in .mht file, or anything else technique used here.

Cheers!
Inam

[charlie]

You are right, active reports store all the data including charts etc within the mht file. This is the reason the .mht file size will be huge for an active report output compared to a normal cognos report output.

[Captain]

So if the database where all the data is drawn from gets updated every day, will the same link to the report show the most updated information if used repeatedly down the road?

[cognos810]

Yes, if you have not saved any output, then clicking on the link which ends up running the report will fetch the most recent data from the database ONCE. The output will then have everything you need in it. No more database cycles beyond that point. If you save the output, it gets disconnected from the live data and the data saved in the MHT file will be as-of when you had run the report.
Makes sense?

-Cognos810