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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: karen.payne on 02 Sep 2016 07:49:42 AM

Title: Possible to use a SharePoint file as External Data Source
Post by: karen.payne on 02 Sep 2016 07:49:42 AM
Hello to all Cognos experts,

I have a user that would like to use an Excel SharePoint file as the source for their External Data file.  Specifically meaning the file name when browsing for the External Data would be something like... https://Company123.sharepoint.com/teams/PAC/BPI/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=qvt0aQC0hON%27&rev=1

The idea here is to skip the step of downloading the file and placing it on a local network drive.  Does anybody know if this is possible/not-possible?   

I also welcome any comments or suggestions for those using the External Data Sets functionality.  Do you share the reports?  Issues with data governance?

Thank you for your time.