Download Cognos Report Studio Designs

[vamsivanka]

 Is there a way to download the existing cognos report designs and save it to sourcesafe ?

or

Can we backup the whole cognos report designs into one package and then redeploy into a new package when needed?

Thanks

[cognostechie]

What do you mean by Report Designs? Are you talking about how your report currently 'looks' when you run it? or any template that you use?

Whatever the case may be, a package cannot include any report designs. The only thing it can include from that perspective is some graphics, icons etc which you can then insert into the report from the package. It still cannot include anything you have in reports as that means backward flow. A package feeds the report with data but it does not accept anything back from the report.

[AussiePete2011]

Hi there

THere are a couple of ways to do this. 
At a cost speak to BSP about ICS for version control that is embedded into Cognos and is AWESOME.

Or you can go into your report save the specs to clipboard then save to a text file and then using Tortoise version control or git version control on the report xml.

Hope this helps
Cheers
AussiePete

[vamsivanka]

What do you mean by Report Designs? Are you talking about how your report currently 'looks' when you run it? or any template that you use?

Whatever the case may be, a package cannot include any report designs. The only thing it can include from that perspective is some graphics, icons etc which you can then insert into the report from the package. It still cannot include anything you have in reports as that means backward flow. A package feeds the report with data but it does not accept anything back from the report.

@cognostechie good to know that package cannot include any report designs.

[vamsivanka]

Hi there

THere are a couple of ways to do this. 
At a cost speak to BSP about ICS for version control that is embedded into Cognos and is AWESOME.

Or you can go into your report save the specs to clipboard then save to a text file and then using Tortoise version control or git version control on the report xml.

Hope this helps
Cheers
AussiePete

@AussiePete It works great. Thanks