I am a new bie to Cognos 10.1. I see Report Studio provides Active Report Template. Active Report Template has many nice controls such as tabbed controls. If I develop a report using this template, will I be able to run this report and see it in Cognos Viewer/Cognos Connection (similar to non active report templates..).
I am just confused with the term "Active Report" template. I know in Cognos 10.1, one can have Active Reports which can be viewed off line, i.e.,will not connect live data (data at that point in database). But I want to see live data as well through CognosPortal (viewer/connection, whatever it is called...). Is it possible to do that.
Hi,
If you write an Active Report (by using the Active Report template, the Blank Active Report template, or by opening a non-active report and using File> Convert to Active Report) your report will always render as an MHT file, containing the data as well as the report spec. You can either download/email this and run it standalone and offline, or you can allow users to run/view it from within the Cognos Connection portal. If a user chooses to run the active report and create a new MHT file, they will need to wait while the latest data is retrieved and the new MHT is rendered, but they can do it, yes.
Cheers!
MF.