construct link for mobile app report execution

[hespora]

Hi there,


situation: I push out ~200 reports a day, rendered as pdf and delivered via eMail, so my recipients get them inside their eMail client without ever seeing cognos.
The report contains, among other data, one aggregated sum for a particular subject. That aggregated sum is enough for them most of the time, but on some rare occasions, the recipients will want to see a detailed breakup of that sum.
I have a detail report for that sum, and I have in my daily pdf going out a hyperlink object that links to the html execution of that report.

Everything works fine up until this point. If they open the pdf on their laptops, clicking on the hyperlink will open a browser and open the report. Yay. Now, some of my recipients do not open the pdf on their laptops, but on their iOS mobile devices as well.

Can I construct a hyperlink (or any other object) inside the pdf report that, when clicked, will open the cognos mobile app for the user (and yes, I am presupposing it's installed and external gateway is correctly setup) and will open the report execution?

[BigChris]

I can't answer your actual question, but would an active report be an alternative approach?

[hespora]

Possibly. Thing is, I want to try very gradually to get them to adopt mobile app usage (these are not tech-savvy users). A seamless link from what they currently have into that system would be a great way to start that.

[MFGF]

Hi,

Unless you're going the Active Reports route, getting your users to adopt the Cognos Mobile app to consume regular reports isn't necessarily a good idea in the long term. When you move from Cognos 10 to Cognos Analytics (11), regular reports can no longer be consumed in the Cognos Mobile app - CA utilises the native browser of the mobile device instead (Safari on an iOS device). The app is still there for Active Reports, but not for regular reports in CA.

As Cognos 10 drops out of support in April 2018, I'd think carefully about adopting the mobile app approach at this point.

Cheers!

MF.

[BigChris]

Is this any use?https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2800081/how-to-run-an-external-program-e-g-notepad-using-hyperlink
or https://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/acucorpproducts/docs/v6_online_doc/internet/int542.htm

I think both of those were written before the advent of apps, so I don't know how you'd go about referencing Cognos Mobile

It does look like this has been asked before though: http://www.cognoise.com/index.php?topic=28094.0

[hespora]

When you move from Cognos 10 to Cognos Analytics (11), regular reports can no longer be consumed in the Cognos Mobile app - CA utilises the native browser of the mobile device instead (Safari on an iOS device).

Well, that right there will then solve my issue once we migrate, i guess. Wheeee! :D