Cognos Images Upload

[nagoole]

Hi All,

I joined with new project and in this project cognos Images files are placed in /bi/samples/images folder.

Currently Developers unable to upload the images file while creating the report, Getting 405 web failed error message. In existing report they have the images but those reports setup done by very long back.

Developers also said those reports are created very long back and now we need to browse the images and asking its there any other way to uploaded the images file if we save in local system.

IIS web server currently using and when i check the IBM link got to know to enable images folder WEBDAV setup is needed.

Kindly confirm if we use IIS for webserver we have to setup the WEBDAV configuration to browse the images ? Or its there any other way to browse the images in cognos 11 analytics ?

Cognos version 11.0.7
IIS - 6.0

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Naga

[MFGF]

Hi All,

I joined with new project and in this project cognos Images files are placed in /bi/samples/images folder.

Currently Developers unable to upload the images file while creating the report, Getting 405 web failed error message. In existing report they have the images but those reports setup done by very long back.

Developers also said those reports are created very long back and now we need to browse the images and asking its there any other way to uploaded the images file if we save in local system.

IIS web server currently using and when i check the IBM link got to know to enable images folder WEBDAV setup is needed.

Kindly confirm if we use IIS for webserver we have to setup the WEBDAV configuration to browse the images ? Or its there any other way to browse the images in cognos 11 analytics ?

Cognos version 11.0.7
IIS - 6.0

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Naga

Hi,

It is still possible to use images from your samples/images folder even if browsing is not allowed. You can enter the URL directly (but of course that necessitates knowing the exact image name to use).

If you want users to be able to press the ellipsis and browse for images, then (as you suspected) you will need to set up WEBDAV in IIS to enable this.

There could be a third option if you are prepared to upgrade. For the 11.0.7 release, IBM introduced the ability to upload images to the server as part of an extension - these can then be seen and used directly in dashboards and story boards with no need for WEBDAV. For the 11.0.8 release, this was extended to reporting, too. Sadly you are on 11.0.7, though, so it's not an option in reporting for the version you have (or at least I don't think it is. I could be wrong, though).

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ca_add_db_images.html

Cheers!

MF.