page load conditionally

[shark1986]

I need help. I use Cognos Analytics 11.1.7

My client requested that when he does not have a specific product, the page would not load when he ran the report.

I was able to use conditional block and variable rendering, so the page is completely blank. But he wants the page not to load when the report runs. Is there any way to do this? I searched the internet and didn't find anything about it.

[MFGF]

I need help. I use Cognos Analytics 11.1.7

My client requested that when he does not have a specific product, the page would not load when he ran the report.

I was able to use conditional block and variable rendering, so the page is completely blank. But he wants the page not to load when the report runs. Is there any way to do this? I searched the internet and didn't find anything about it.

Hi,

There's nothing I can think of that would produce this behaviour. It seems like an odd request, though. How would your client be able to distinguish between a report that doesn't run because there is a technical issue and a report that doesn't run because there is no data they want to see? Wouldn't it just be better to display a message saying "There is no data to see here"?

Cheers!

MF.

[shark1986]

Yes, it's a rather strange request.

It is a telephone company, which sends the report by schedule monthly to their customers.

Some customers have all the products, and some don't, so he wanted the page for product "x" not to load when the customer doesn't have product "x" contracted.

Using conditional block and variable rendering helps me to hide the data, but not from not loading the page.

This report is sent by pdf, I was trying to think of putting null pages as HTML and non-null pages as PDF, but I don't know how to do that. In fact, I don't even know if that's possible.

[MFGF]

Yes, it's a rather strange request.

It is a telephone company, which sends the report by schedule monthly to their customers.

Some customers have all the products, and some don't, so he wanted the page for product "x" not to load when the customer doesn't have product "x" contracted.

Using conditional block and variable rendering helps me to hide the data, but not from not loading the page.

This report is sent by pdf, I was trying to think of putting null pages as HTML and non-null pages as PDF, but I don't know how to do that. In fact, I don't even know if that's possible.

So it isn't the entire report that needs to be suppressed, just some pages? Are the pages in the report hard-coded or are they driven by a page set? If you are using a page set, wouldn't filtering take care of this?

Cheers!

MF.