Active reports auto refresh

[surajr]

Hello,

Is there a way to get an Active report to auto refresh every 5 minutes or so? I understand that Active reports are meant to be offline views, but in our case we want it to be able to refresh. We had a HTML item that contained a script to do it in the Report STudio view. However, this does not seem to work on the Active Report. ANy advice? Much appreciated.

Added information. We are using Active reports as a dashboard that is used on the shop floor. Based on the changes in source data, the "dashboard" needs to be updated.

Thanks,
Suraj

[shelby435]

Just off the top of my head, I assume you already have the reports bursted?

You can set up a job than run every 5 minutes and bursts each time?

[surajr]

Thanks shelby! Its being displayed on the screen as a dashboard. So i'm not bursting it to anyone. It needs to refresh on the screen automatically.

I used the following script in report studio when I had a non active report, and it worked perfectly when I ran the report as a HTML output. It doesn't work in a active report.

<script>
(function(global){

var ocr = cognos.Report.getReport("_THIS_");
function sendPRMT_Request(eAction) {
ocr.sendRequest(eAction);
}
function sendFinishRequest() {
sendPRMT_Request(cognos.Report.Action.FINISH);
}

global.setInterval( function() { sendFinishRequest(); }, 600000 );
// for Auto Refresh 600000 is a value in milliseconds, ie 10 minutes here.
})(this);
</script>

[MFGF]

Thanks shelby! Its being displayed on the screen as a dashboard. So i'm not bursting it to anyone. It needs to refresh on the screen automatically.

I used the following script in report studio when I had a non active report, and it worked perfectly when I ran the report as a HTML output. It doesn't work in a active report.

<script>
(function(global){

var ocr = cognos.Report.getReport("_THIS_");
function sendPRMT_Request(eAction) {
ocr.sendRequest(eAction);
}
function sendFinishRequest() {
sendPRMT_Request(cognos.Report.Action.FINISH);
}

global.setInterval( function() { sendFinishRequest(); }, 600000 );
// for Auto Refresh 600000 is a value in milliseconds, ie 10 minutes here.
})(this);
</script>

Nope - it doesn't work like that. You are displaying a rendered MHT file on your screen, and you can't refresh it once it has been created. You can only create new MHTs - by re-running the report, but this does not sound like your requirement.

MF.

[surajr]

Thanks MF. Yes. My requirement is to automatically rerun the report and obtain the new MHT on screen. Is there any way around this? I was looking to do this in Cognos WorkSpace but that also does not have an Auto refresh feature. Is a non active report the only way to auto refresh something in IBM Cognos?

[bdbits]

An Active Report is a bit like saving a PDF from a report. You run it, the output is generated and saved somewhere and can be viewed indefinitely.

If you want a report refreshed every 5 minutes, an Active Report is really not the way to go unless you absolutely have to have some capability an Active Report has that a normal report does not. You might be able to manually build a way to get the content refreshed, but it will most certainly not be out-of-the-box / automatic.