Unique (fixed) size of Active report

[b737]

Hi,

I am new in Cognos 10.2 and in Active reports, but i have been working till now in Cognos 8.4. I want to create Active report with unique (fix) size which will not depend of resolution of the monitor, and will be the same size.

thanks

[MFGF]

Hi,

I am new in Cognos 10.2 and in Active reports, but i have been working till now in Cognos 8.4. I want to create Active report with unique (fix) size which will not depend of resolution of the monitor, and will be the same size.

thanks

You'll be happy to know that you use the exact same approach as with any "normal" report - in Cognos 8 or 10. Simply fix the size of the structures you include so they don't grow and shrink. The usual culprits are tables and blocks, which by default are set to width 100% in the Size & Overflow property. Change this to a fixed number of pixels - eg 1024px. Also explicitly size each table cell, and where you include content of the same size as the cell, specify explicit padding for the table cell of 0px top, bottom, left and right (the default is 1px all around, even though it appears blank).

Cheers!

MF.

[b737]

Thank you.

I have found this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTHeErxKCtU and on 10:44 it shows that report adjust to the size of the screen. I am not sure is it because of the image that he put on background??

[MFGF]

Thank you.

I have found this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTHeErxKCtU and on 10:44 it shows that report adjust to the size of the screen. I am not sure is it because of the image that he put on background??

If you look at the video around the 1:00 minute time period, you see the author define a table with width and height specified as 100%. This is the reason things grow and shrink. If you want fixed sizes, define widths and heights as a fixed number of pixels (not as 100%) as I indicated in the previous post.

MF.