Anyway to reuse a visualization authored in Dashboard as input to build aReport?

[FerdH4]

For example, if a Dashboard Author successfully built one fab v11.2 visualization, is there any way for them to reuse that same object to build a Cognos Report without rebuilding the Report from scratch?

[MFGF]

For example, if a Dashboard Author successfully built one fab v11.2 visualization, is there any way for them to reuse that same object to build a Cognos Report without rebuilding the Report from scratch?

If you mean the entire dashboard layout and contents, then no - dashboards and reports have different internal structures (JSON vs XML). There's also an added complication that dashboards can be based directly on an uploaded file, whereas reports cannot - the file needs to be modelled in a Data Module to be able to use it in a report. However, as long as the dashboard is based on something a report can use as a data source (data module or package), you can copy and paste the visualizations from a dashboard to a report (you can multi-select them in the dashboard and paste them all in one go). To copy, use <ctrl>c and to paste, use <ctrl>v. You don't get the layout, though - you will end up with all the visualizations stacked next to each other. It would be great to be able to take an entire dashboard including the layout and save it as the start point for a report, but as of right now, it's not something the product permits.

Cheers!

MF.

[FerdH4]

Thank you MFGF.

If you mean the entire dashboard layout and contents, then no - dashboards and reports have different internal structures (JSON vs XML). There's also an added complication that dashboards can be based directly on an uploaded file, whereas reports cannot - the file needs to be modelled in a Data Module to be able to use it in a report. However, as long as the dashboard is based on something a report can use as a data source (data module or package), you can copy and paste the visualizations from a dashboard to a report (you can multi-select them in the dashboard and paste them all in one go). To copy, use <ctrl>c and to paste, use <ctrl>v. You don't get the layout, though - you will end up with all the visualizations stacked next to each other. It would be great to be able to take an entire dashboard including the layout and save it as the start point for a report, but as of right now, it's not something the product permits.

Cheers!

MF.