Custom home tab extension in 11.2.0(+)

[erikc]

Hi,
In the new Cognos Analytics interface (introduced in 11.2.0) it is hard for simple Viewers to open reports in the Team Content folder without explanation. Besides that, open Team Content requires more clicks. To avoid this, we would like to add a custom home tab or quick launch tile to directly open the Team Content from the home screen.

So my idea was to develop a simple custom extension. However, I couldn't find any relevant samples or other documentation how to add a home tab. Found a sample how to add a quicklaunch tile but this is not sufficient enough; because it can only open external URL's and not internal links.

Is there anyone who has develop something like this? I can't imagine that we are the only IBM customer who has this request. Should be a base example or better... Quick Launch should have a tab "View data".

[MFGF]

Hi,
In the new Cognos Analytics interface (introduced in 11.2.0) it is hard for simple Viewers to open reports in the Team Content folder without explanation. Besides that, open Team Content requires more clicks. To avoid this, we would like to add a custom home tab or quick launch tile to directly open the Team Content from the home screen.

So my idea was to develop a simple custom extension. However, I couldn't find any relevant samples or other documentation how to add a home tab. Found a sample how to add a quicklaunch tile but this is not sufficient enough; because it can only open external URL's and not internal links.

Is there anyone who has develop something like this? I can't imagine that we are the only IBM customer who has this request. Should be a base example or better... Quick Launch should have a tab "View data".

Hi,

Paul Mendelson (cognospaul) wrote an article about this in one of his newsletters, and also posted about it in the IBM Community.

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/discussion/way-to-have-set-content-as-the-default-home-page-in-112?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fbusinessanalytics%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3d6b10df83-0b3c-4f92-8b1f-1fd80d0e7e58

He added an extension to the post for a custom view that redirects to perspective=content. You can upload that extension, then apply it to one or more roles.

Lower down in the post, someone else showed a small mod to the extension that opens Team Content rather than My Content.

Let us know if this works for you!

Cheers!

MF.

[dougp]

Why not tell people to use a specific URL to get to Cognos?  For Cognos 11.1.7 using SSL and SSO, the "share" link for Team Content looks like this:

https://servername.ext/ibmcognos/bi/?perspective=home&folder=.public_folders

If you manage desktops and browsers at the enterprise level, the folks that manage that can push out a shortcut to everyone's desktop or a favorite to everyone's browser.  Or maybe just update the Cognos link on your Intranet site where folks start their day.  Many options.