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We're running Cognos 12.1 with Business Analytics Dashboards. This happened with the last update, but we've noticed if we schedule a report for a certain day and time with html, pdf, and excel settings, that the report downloads as a empty file with a .532z extension. If there are no options set to download (pdf, excel), then it's fine as it just displays a html page. Has anyone ran across this before? Is there any fix for it? Our vendor we have, has zero answers and just wants to keep waiting for new versions to hope it fixes the issue. Attached is a zipped file of what we see.

Good afternoon,

I have a dahboard with multiple Visualizations using the same navigation path.
Is it possible to change the navigation paths for all these visualizations simultaniously?


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I hope someone gets this!  I am a UKG customer and create many dashboards and reports for my organization.  I am attempting to add a visualization to a report and I am getting the error message 'Only a measure or a single value can be inserted in the selected location'.  It is a count of terms and for the 'Length' field.  It is a total calculation and I've used it extensively in dashboards.  What is weird is that I got it to work on the hires visualization.  At first it didn't work but I toggled on Autochart in properties and it let me add it.  Now while doing the terms visualization, it will not work.  I compared the properties side by side and they are identical.  I also compared the properties for the expressions as suggested on this site.  It will not let me add the terms count.  I also tried copying the visualization and changing the fields and it still won't work!  Please help!

With DMR, standard detail filters can be super tricky because Cognos tries to apply them after row retrieval, which often destroys performance or messes up rolled-up totals.
If you're filtering on member sets, try using dimensional functions like filter([MemberSet], [Measure] > X) or use a Slicer expression instead. If you have to use a detail filter, make sure you set the Application property to After Auto-Aggregation so it evaluates properly against the measure summaries rather than underlying relational rows.
Hope this helps! (Currently grinding through report tweaks while listening to audio via tunerhippo - keeps me sane during long Cognos debug sessions).

If it's just a couple of values, passing them as parameters keeps things clear and makes the function easier to reuse. Once the list starts getting long, though, I usually bundle related values into a single object or struct. It makes the code much easier to read and maintain later.

I've learned a lot just by reading older discussions here, and it's great to see how willing everyone is to help. Looking forward to picking up more Cognos tips and hopefully being able to contribute as I gain more experience.

One thing I'd also check is whether the issue is happening in a brand-new test report/project. That can quickly tell you if it's something in the environment or just the report itself. I've found that stripping things back to the simplest case often saves a lot of time when troubleshooting Cognos.
I used a step-by-step guide on Steplama that covered a similar issue, although the suggestions here are probably the first things I'd try.

I have always been amazed by the combination of active and passive behavior of the management. Not upgrading cognos and still using version 10x but asking you to renew your certs is perfect example of that. Of course, they will say that upgrading is not possible because of heavy customization etc.. Managers like to be lazy but would expect others not be so..

Has anyone implemented OpenID Connect instead of AD?????