Send reports automatically to printer from hyperlink click

[Ixe13]

Hi,

I am fairly new to Cognos and I am wondering what would be the most efficient way to do the following: I am trying to have a "parent" report with a total of 11 hyperlinks on it. Users could click those hyperlinks to generate a total of 11 different on demand reports. All those reports have to be sent to specific printers automatically once the user clicks the hyperlink, no need to view the reports in HTML or PDF format.  We are using Cognos 8.3.

[Ixe13]

We have tried applying some of the suggested solutions.  The suggested URLs did not do the job.  It was either preventing us from saving the report either preventing us from sending parameters to child reports.
Thanks to my colleague who did the java coding we were able to come up with a solution.
With the use of a simple java class we can submit child reports from a hyperlink in the parent report.  From the Infor EAM screen we execute a parent report passing a selection of parameters.  The child reports receive parameters from the parent report; they are executed and then saved on the Cognos server.  A batch file is executed at generation time to send the report to its associated printer on the network.

Thanks to all those who helped!