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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Business Insight / Cognos Workspace => Topic started by: hansi on 20 May 2013 07:18:04 AM

Title: Unable to display Workspace background
Post by: hansi on 20 May 2013 07:18:04 AM
Hi,
I'm trying to incorporate a .jpg image into my background, but I'm getting an error :
The content cannot be displayed
The URL address is unavailable. To fix this provide a valid URL address in the Properties

Initially, I'm trying to store something locally on my server, so i should be able to store in "webcontent" directory, right?

Can someone give me a full example pathname where I should store & then Cognos should pick up ??

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Unable to display Workspace background
Post by: Ganesh Kedari on 21 May 2013 01:14:03 AM
Hi Hansi,
To access images stored in Cognos server , directory should have access rights. Generally we store images in webcontent/samples/images folders but this can be customised . Check your Webserver documentation for enabling this location access.
For validating the image URL , try loading the URL in your browser first using http://<server>:<port>/<cognosDir>/<imagePath>/<imageFileName>.jpg

Revert if you still faces issues to access the image.
Title: Re: Unable to display Workspace background
Post by: MFGF on 23 May 2013 07:13:34 AM
Assuming your images are directly in the Webcontent folder, your image URL could simply be ../<imagename>

Have you tried this?

MF.
Title: Re: Unable to display Workspace background
Post by: hansi on 23 May 2013 11:15:04 AM
Well done MF ! works !
Title: Re: Unable to display Workspace background
Post by: MFGF on 23 May 2013 12:26:31 PM
Hurrah! Great news :)