Using/Setting up a Portal tab For Report Requests

[damienm]

Has everyone ever setup a Portal Tab to act as an on-line electronic help page. What I mean is that I need a process for users to email requests changes and wish lists, ideally the portal tab would contain a PDF electronic form which the user would go to and complete and then click a submit button, that would in return send it to the cognos helpdesk email I have setup. In additional to this I would like to use this portal to display news on changes and additions to the Cognos model. A tall order I know but was wondering if anyone has setup this up or seen something similar in use.

[larsonr]

Greetings, your portal is going to need to point to another web page that essentially does this for you.  Either you will need to create a .Net, php, jsp, etc.. application that allows the user to fill out a web form or   link to an existing application that does so.

You may find that you may have one part of the portal tab show the help portion and have a second HTML viewer that points to an RSS or HTML news feed.  I have been currently playing around with Apache Roller to set up a blogging type of application to function as a news webpage for the user community.  Once finished, I would just link the portal to point to a specific page and they would be set up with a Cognos News portal tab. 

Just some ideas to throw out there.  Good luck in whatever decision you land on.

[praveennb]

Here is cognos support link article, which uses RSS feeds in Report Studio.
http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/techniques/ta_0711_01.html