Drill Through to an Active Report Saved Output - innerHTML error with IE

[ScottFairbanks]

Hi Everyone;

I am having an issue with a very simple task and I'm hoping someone can help point me in the right direction.  I have an Active Report, that I ran and saved the output of.  Now I want to access it from a link in a regular Report Studio Report; no parameter passing or anything complicated... just run the saved output for the Active Report.

I am getting an error in Internet Explorer (not Firefox or Chrome) and it says the following:

Unable to set property 'innerHTML' of undefined or null reference http://(cognos envrinment, etc.)/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll/repository/sid/cm/oid/(bunch of letters and numbers)/content/mht/content18

The error pops up in a window, and if I close it, and click the same drill through link again in the source report, the drill through saved output active report works appropriately.  It seems to only happen the first time after re-running the Active Report. I've seen a couple of IBM notes about it suggesting to use Firefox or upgrade to Cognos Analytics... but is that really the only solution?

Is there any way to run a Cognos Active Report saved output from another report?

-Scott

[bdbits]

What business problem are you trying to solve? This seems a convoluted way to do things.

By linking to the report, do you mean constructing an HTML link to the AR output file? Or are you trying to use drill-through (which I do not think will work)?

[ScottFairbanks]

I will elaborate.  It is much simpler than what you said... When I say "Linking to the report" I just am using the regular "drill through definition" Cognos out of the box method to link to Cognos Connection, where I ran and saved the report on the server.  I don't want to pass any parameters or anything... I just want to view the most recently saved report output.

It works fine when I click on the report name on Cognos Connection... I just want that same thing to happen from a dashboard type of report so the user doesn't have to go navigating around Cognos Connection to find it.