Drill Through from PDF Report

[dhavcog]

Hi

I have createed drill through within report studio for three reports, now navigation from one report to another in HTML Format is working,, but from PDF format is not working,, i have multi server environment.
i have changed the application sever cognos config, replacing localhost entry with server name , but still having issue,, require help..

thanks,
dhaval

[MMcBride]

When you save a report to PDF format you are basically "Printing the Document to PDF" and just like printing you cannot use the Drill down information you use in HTML

There is no interactivity with PDF you have to stay in HTML for that.

[twlarsen]

I'd have to disagree, we have reports that are in PDF format that have drill-thru enabled and work just fine.

Are you getting an error message or does it just not work?

[MFGF]

Yes - drill through should work from PDF, unless you have done somethng sneaky to enable it such as adding HTML anchor tags into the source report rather than utilising the standard Cognos 8 drill-through functionality.  What is the nature of the problem - do you see any error messages etc?

MF.

[jive]

Hi sorry to jump in that thread, but I have the same problem with my pdf report. I just made a new one with two dimension ans one fact.
It's work well in html but not in PDF... I will follow that thread

[MMcBride]

Perhaps whats preventing me from using PDF Drill throughs is not Cognos at all

I am not sure what the Original Posters issue is but the reason PDF Drill downs have never worked is that if I attempt to use Drill Down in a PDF I get the following error

Adobe Reader
"An error occurred during the submit process. Unknown failure."

When I use the same report in HTML the drill through works like a dream.

I am using Adobe Reader 9.3.0

Nothing shows up at all within my cognos logs

Jive and Dhavcog are you seeing similar errors or something different?

[MFGF]

Are we talking about two separate issues here - drill through and drill down?

MF.

[blom0344]

Hi

I have createed drill through within report studio for three reports, now navigation from one report to another in HTML Format is working,, but from PDF format is not working,, i have multi server environment.
i have changed the application sever cognos config, replacing localhost entry with server name , but still having issue,, require help..

thanks,
dhaval

Try using the fully qualified server path in Cognos configuration. We had the same problems with one client and using the fully qualified path was the cure. (I have forgotten why it worked, but it was instigated by a Cognos KB article)

[jive]

HI,

It's my mistake I read drill-thru and think drill-down, drill-up.

Sorry

[dhavcog]

thanks guys,

to putting your efforts in this post.. finally i have worked out..

Using fully qualified name, my report can drill through ,,

thanks,
dhavcog