Hi Gurus,
Is it possible to do bursting of reports in standalone machine?In home pc
Thanks in advance
K.M
My laptop runs Cognos 8 standalone, and will happily burst reports. What are you trying to achieve?
MF.
MFGF,
whats the mail server you are using. is it also installed on your laptop ??
Hi Tupac,
I use a freeware mail server called ArgoSoft Mail Server, and yes - it is installed on my laptop, Cognos 8 is configured to use it, and I use it for demo purposes.
Regards,
MF.
Thanks for all your kind reply.I am trying to burst report in my local machine.I dont have mail server in my machine.
I have one doubt can i distrubute my report to my local folder in the standalone environment if so can pls guide me.
one more problem i have in my office environment with bursting,we got a scope in our project to implement parameterized URL in client portal we have successfully done by taking the URL and placing in the portal.
In that We have 2 reports that have bursting option in it,our clients are expecting the reports to burst from the customer portal.
let me explain in detail.
The clients are expecting a prompt for bursting in the report.when we select the bursting option in prompt page then it should burst the report from the parameterized URL whether is it possible let me know.
Thanks in advance,
K.M
Quote from: madhancog on 27 Aug 2010 12:20:39 AMThanks for all your kind reply.I am trying to burst report in my local machine.I dont have mail server in my machine.
I have one doubt can i distrubute my report to my local folder in the standalone environment if so can pls guide me.
You can burst reports back to Cognos Connection, if that is what you mean. Rather than the burst key being the email addresses of your recipients, it would need to be the CAMIDs of the recipients (so that when they log in to Cognos Connection they can view only the output which corresponds to their CAMID).
Often it is difficult to construct CAMID strings using a query calculation in the burst report, so normally I'd expect a "burst table" in the database would be used - basically a cross-reference between the grouped items in the report you are bursting across and the CAMIDs of the burst recipients.
Quote from: madhancog on 27 Aug 2010 12:20:39 AMone more problem i have in my office environment with bursting,we got a scope in our project to implement parameterized URL in client portal we have successfully done by taking the URL and placing in the portal.
In that We have 2 reports that have bursting option in it,our clients are expecting the reports to burst from the customer portal.
let me explain in detail.
The clients are expecting a prompt for bursting in the report.when we select the bursting option in prompt page then it should burst the report from the parameterized URL whether is it possible let me know.
Sorry, I'm not quite following what you're trying to achieve here. Could you explain a little further?
Regards,
MF.
Hi MFGF
I have a report with burst option in cognos connection and it is working fine.
Now my requirement is to place this report in the remote portal so i copied the URL and created the html item like below
<html>
<boby>
a href=http://10.117.129.182/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Test%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27BBJ%20Reporttes%27%5d&ui.name=BBJ%20Reporttes&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true&ui.backURL=%2fcognos8%2fcgi-bin%2fcognosisapi.dll%3fb_action%3dxts.run%26m%3dportal%2fcc.xts%26m_folder%3di21FA1D94E67F46D288175F1993581473> Report
<body>
</html>
now when i run the html page created it is running entire report and showing the values it is not bursting as original report ,can i know how to burst the report.
Thanks in advance
K.M
When you create a report that supports bursting and save it to Cognos Connection, you still need to enable bursting at runtime - it sounds like you are not taking this into account when running the report. I can't check right now, but from memory you need to go to Advanced options and check the Burst checkbox when running the report.
Regards,
MF.
Hi MFGF,
What you said is correct when u run your report from cognos connection we will go to advanced option we will burst it that is fine.
But my requirement is i will take the URL and place it in some other portal where we can see the report URL only ,now here we wont have any option to enable the bursting in the URL ,how can i proceed on this.
Thanks in advance,
K.M
Is it a portal supported by Cognos 8? If so, then you could use a Cognos Viewer portlet in your portal, which would give you all the relevant options for running/viewing your report, including bursting.
If not, you'd need to figure out whether the burst option is supported as part of the report URL, and manually add it to the URL if it is.
Regards,
MF.
Thanks for your kind reply.
Our portel is not supported by cognos.
We are trying for the function that will automatically enable the busrting from the URLIf you get any idea or solution let us know.
Thanks
K.M