Hi,
I am currently working on integrating Cognos SDK with our ASP.NET Web Application.
I successfully connected to a dispatch server using the supplied credential (following the steps from SDK's sampleconnect.cs example)
However, I tried adding the bibusinessheader's campassport to the cookie so that when I execute a report (cognos cgi gateway) through a URL, the cognosviewer would not recognize the campassport and instead popup the standard logon entry.
Here is the code:
Button Click event's code behind:
//add the CAMPassport id to the cookie
string passport = _cognosConnect.C8CMS.biBusHeaderValue.CAM.CAMPassport.id;
HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("cam_passport", passport);
cookie.Path = "/";
cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);
Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
//call the url
Response.Redirect("http://[server]/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder/...and so on");
Thanks for the help.
Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I just started using Cognos and am having the same problem. :-(
Don't know if you figured this out.
the reason you get a login screen is, cognos URL put another cookie called cam_passport but with a different path, mine is /cognos8. if you had created the cookie ,cam_passport, with the same path as what its trying to put you would have been ok i guess.
I always put my passport in the URL as an argument instead of cookies. It will definitely pick it up then.