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Title: Creating a Menu / Contents Page
Post by: holsy1982 on 04 Mar 2011 10:19:42 AM
We've created a report with 12 pages, each showing a separate graph and split onto pages so it can be printed as PDF.   However I'd like to produce a contents page so that users can easily click straight to the graph the like when viewing as HTML.  How would I create links from the front page through to the various pages of the reports.  I've tried using bookmarks and this then allows the links to work within the PDF but not on when viewed in HTML.

Anyhelp would be appreciated
Title: Re: Creating a Menu / Contents Page
Post by: david.stachon on 04 Mar 2011 10:27:33 AM
To work in HTML, because you've gone with different pages you'd likely need to get pretty fancy by making the report drill through on itself and using render variables.
Title: Re: Creating a Menu / Contents Page
Post by: AussiePete2011 on 06 Mar 2011 05:16:44 PM
Hi there,

Do you mean a Table of Contents (TOC) as this was introduced in 8.4 as a new function / Feature
Prior to that you needed to follow the document below
PDF - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/page238.html

For HTML, there's a bit more work as you need to create tags or anchors.
See this discussion http://www.cognoise.com/community/index.php?topic=9962.0 which may help

Cheers
Peter B
Title: Re: Creating a Menu / Contents Page
Post by: holsy1982 on 07 Mar 2011 03:11:04 AM
Thanks,

At the moment we're running under 8.1, however we're also in the process of an upgrade to 8.4.1 and so we'd probably be best waiting until thats gone through.

Cheers