All Reports Linked to a Given Package

[technomorph]

Hi,

I am trying to get a list of all reports linked to a given package.

In our Cognos 8.2 implementation the reports are organised into departmental folders, and are not stored within the associated package folders.

I am new to the SDK, and have experimented with the VB6 code below. The basic steps are:

1. Query the Content Store for a list of all reports
2. For those reports which are linked to the given package, record and display the name

The code works, however it actually returns no report names because our reports are not stored within the package folders. The SDK documentation states the following of the packageBase property:

If the object is not a descendant of a package, the value of this property is the path to the root
object.

Thus the problem is that the basePackage property value actually returns the root path i.e. "/", and never the package name.

I guess I need to use another approach for this task, so am grateful for any assistance.

Cheers.

Private Sub List_Reports()

Dim oCM As ContentManagerService
Dim sUserID As String
Dim sPassword As String
Dim sNamespace As String
Dim sPath As New SearchPathMultipleObject
Dim oSortOptions As New SortC
Dim oQueryOpts As New QueryOptions
Dim oProps As New PropEnumC
Dim oReports As BaseClassC
Dim i As Integer
Dim sReports As String

On Error GoTo Exception:

' connection credentials
  sUserID = "username"
  sPassword = "password"
  sNamespace = "namespace"

' connect to Content Manager
  Set oCM = New ContentManagerService
  oCM.endPointUrl = "http://localhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch"
  Call oCM.logon(XMLEncode("<credential><namespace>" & sNamespace & _
                                        "</namespace><username>" & sUserID & _
                                        "</username><password>" & sPassword & _
                                        "</password></credential>"), Nothing)
                                       
' define query search path parameters
  sPath.Value = "//report"
  oProps.Add defaultName
  oProps.Add packageBase

' query Content Manager
  Set oReports = oCM.Query(sPath, oProps, oSortOptions, oQueryOpts)
       
' iterate through reports
  For i = 1 To oReports.Count
           
      ' look for package
        If oReports.Item(i).packageBase.Value = "PackageName" Then
         
          ' record report name
            sReports = sReports & oReports.Item(i).defaultName.Value & vbCrLf
             
        End If
             
  Next i

' show reports
  MsgBox sReports

Exit Sub
   
Exception:

    MsgBox Err.Description

End Sub

[technomorph]

For those interested. This is how I resolved this...

Private Sub cmdExecute_Click()

Dim sPath As New SearchPathMultipleObject
Dim oSortOptions As New SortC
Dim oSortOption As New Sort
Dim oQueryOpts As New QueryOptions
Dim oProps As New PropEnumC
Dim oReports As BaseClassC
Dim oQueryOptProps As New PropEnumC
Dim oRefMetaProps As New RefPropC
Dim oRefMetaProp As New RefProp
Dim oAuthoredReport As AuthoredReport
Dim i As Integer
Dim oFSO As New FileSystemObject
Dim oTxt As TextStream
Dim sPackageName As String
Dim sOutput As String

On Error GoTo Exception:
                                       
Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass
                                       
' define query search path parameters
  sPath.Value = "//report"
  oProps.Add defaultName
  oProps.Add searchPath
   
' define query option properties
  oQueryOptProps.Add defaultName
   
' define reference object properties
  Set oRefMetaProp.properties = oQueryOptProps
  oRefMetaProp.refPropName = metadataModelPackage
  oRefMetaProps.Add oRefMetaProp
 
' assign reference properties
  Set oQueryOpts.refProps = oRefMetaProps

' specify sort option settings
  oSortOption.propName = defaultName
  oSortOption.Order = ascending
  oSortOptions.Add oSortOption

' query Content Manager
  Set oReports = oCM.Query(sPath, oProps, oSortOptions, oQueryOpts)
       
' iterate through reports
  For i = 1 To oReports.Count
 
    Set oAuthoredReport = oReports.Item(i)
    sPackageName = oAuthoredReport.metadataModelPackage.Value.Item(1).defaultName.Value
 
    If sPackageName = txtPackageName Then
 
      ' extract report name and search path, format into CSV
        sOutput = sOutput & Chr(34) & oAuthoredReport.defaultName.Value & Chr(34) & "," & Chr(34) & oAuthoredReport.searchPath.Value & Chr(34) & vbCrLf
   
    End If
   
    Set oAuthoredReport = Nothing
   
  Next i

' write output to file
  Set oTxt = oFSO.CreateTextFile(CheckPath(txtDownloadPath) & "reports_(" & txtPackageName & ").csv", True)
  oTxt.Write sOutput
  oTxt.Close
  Set oTxt = Nothing

Screen.MousePointer = vbNormal

'  notify user
    MsgBox "Extract completed successfully.", vbInformation, "Complete"

Exit Sub

Exception:
   
  ' handle errors
    If Err.Number = 91 Then ' report has no package
        Resume Next
    Else
        Screen.MousePointer = vbNormal
        MsgBox Err.Description, vbCritical, "Error"
    End If
   
End Sub

[huels]

Thanks for sharing your solution.

I had a similar problem to solve in Java.
I wanted to know which packages are used in the reports that are saved in the Cognos8 Content Store.

My code is still a prototype, so I only share the important parts:

First, the search path to use in the SearchPathMultipleObject class:

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String reportPaths = "/content//report";


Second the properties to be able to use the metadataModelPackage:

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PropEnum[] properties =
{   
    PropEnum.defaultName,
    PropEnum.searchPath,
    PropEnum.metadataModelPackage
};


Third: Go through the BaseClass objects and extract the metadataModelPackage information:

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for (int i = 0; i < results.length; i++)
{
    BaseClass results[] = cmService.query(p1, properties,  sortBy, options);
    AuthoredReport rep = (AuthoredReport)results[i];
    BaseClass[] pack = rep.getMetadataModelPackage().getValue();
    if (pack != null) {
        for (int j = 0; j < pack.length; j++)
        {
            String packPath = pack[j].getSearchPath().getValue().toString();
            int position = packPath.indexOf("/package");
            String packName = packPath.substring(position+16, packPath.length()-2);
            System.out.println(packName);
       }
   }
}


Regards,
Stefan