Cognos Component Web Part

The Cognos Component Web Part is new for release 2.1 and has been added to provide web part/page authors with the ability to provided controlled exposure to users for the following Cognos Connection components:

• Welcome Page – show the Cognos Connection Welcome page
• [Users] Home page – show the home page of the currently logged in user (as defined in Cognos Connection)
• Public Folders – show Public Folders (Cognos Connection)
• A Folder or Package – navigate directly to a specified Folder or Package
• Portal Page (also known as a Portal Tab or pagelet) – display any Portal Page (that the user has permissions for)
• My Folders – show My Folders for the currently logged in user in Cognos Connection
• My Inbox – show My Inbox for the currently logged in user
• My Watchlist – show My Watchlist for the currently logged in user
• Search
  • Search (Full Text) is the google like GO! Search that has been integrated into the base platform for Cognos 10.
  • Search (Name or Desc) is the basic search available in all versions of Cognos.

Note that in all cases what the user sees in Cognos Connection is governed by their Cognos Connection/Cognos BI Platform capabilities and folder/object permissions.

What operations the user is allowed to perform can be controlled for some components via using the Hide Header Elements Tags (see below for details) such as hiding the main header in Cognos Connection. For example:

Show top header	Hide top header

Properties:

Properties for web parts can be accessed by clicking “Modify Shared/Personal Web Part” from the Title Bar.

The QueryVision extended Web Parts can be found under the “QueryVision” category on the property sheet.

Login Page Address:

Enter the URL to a SharePoint Web Page on the same site that contains a QueryVision Login Web Part. This enables the Content Browser to redirect to the a Login Page if it detects that you are currently not logged into a Cognos Server.

Redirect To Login:

When checked the web part will automatically redirect to the Login Page Address when not logged in.

Login Redirect Delay:

Time in seconds before the web part will redirect to the Login Page.

Selected Cognos Component to View:

Cognos Component Path:

Depending on the selected Component selection, the search path to the Cognos Component must be supplied. This is done via the Cognos Component Path. Entry of the path can be done via type-in or cut/copy/paste from Cognos Connection or via clicking in the text entry area and clicking the browse button:

This will present the a Windows Explorer style navigation panel select the object/path to the specified type of component in a tree browser. In this case the selected component type is “Portal Page”. For a Folder/Package the selectable objects would be folders and packages.

Hide Header Element Tags:

The web part can also be configured to hide selected parts of the Cognos Connection component headers.

For Cognos 8.3 8.4, 8.4.1 & 10, the following graphically defines what areas of Cognos Connection can be hidden:

• h1 – top header – this includes
  • t1 – hide title
  • m1 – hide the logon, refersh, search bar, home, personalization, launch and help (m1)
• h3 – hides the header that includes:
  • t3 – hide the tabs (includes public folders, myFolders, pagelet Tabs)
  • h4 – hides the header that includes:
• t4 – the navigation path/titles (e.g. public folders->go sales and retailers)
  • m4 – the button toolbar (refresh, cut, pase, new folder, etc.)

You can hide elements by typing in a list (without separators) into the Hide Header Elements Tags area. For example, the following will hide the elements h1 (hides t1 and m1) and m4

h1m4

Leaving the property blank will show all headers.