pickup .pdf file cognos server

[sukanya]

Can we pickup .pdf file from cognos server location and show it on a report? Anyone previously done please share the process you have done it.

Thanks,
Sukanya

[New_Guy]

Hi,
You cannot embed the output of a report in another report. All you can do is run the report you want to show and save it and place a hyperlink in another report with the saved report search path and url and the user can click and can see the output. Another option is using report reference or drill through.
Good luck
New guy

[sukanya]

can you elaborate on "Another option is using report reference or drill through"? So, in our case we will have multiple .pdf's in a location on cognos server. Just like we access the images from cognos server can we access the .pdf's from cognos server location?

Thanks

[MFGF]

can you elaborate on "Another option is using report reference or drill through"? So, in our case we will have multiple .pdf's in a location on cognos server. Just like we access the images from cognos server can we access the .pdf's from cognos server location?

Thanks

You could perhaps look into using HTML items and the OBJECT tag to embed PDFs into your report page? It would only work when rendering as HTML though.

Here's a little light reading...

https://devcereal.com/how-to-embed-pdf-html/

MF.