The reality of Cognos Application lifecycles is that reports and other Cognos objects (including folders containing the reports/objects) can change in the Cognos Content Store (in Cognos Connection): Moved – to a different folder Renamed Replaced – a new report is created (new ID), but with the same name as an existing Report. For BI [...]
Faster App Development through Web Part Cloning
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Cognos Component Web Part
May 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Optimizing Cognos Dashboards
May 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cognos 8.4.1 GO! Dashboards and Cognos 10 Business Insight [Dashboards] provide user pleasing visual Business Intelligence with a user interface that almost any BI consumer can navigate or use to build or change to their requirements. While this appeals enormously to our clients, a few have expressed concerns over the response time, particularly if [...]
What’s New in QueryVision Web Parts release 2.1
May 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The focus for QueryVision’s latest release of QueryVision SharePoint Web Parts for Cognos (2.1) was Cognos 10 and SharePoint 2010, but lots of other features were added or upgraded: All features supported for both SharePoint 2007 & 2010 Support for Cognos 10 (in addition to 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.4.1) from a single installation [...]
Cognos Reports Within SharePoint, Accessed on a Single SharePoint Page
May 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Connecting our web parts together enables users to navigate through ALL of your Cognos content without ever leaving a single SharePoint page. Getting this going is actually very simple. But first let me briefly explain what connected web parts are…. Within SharePoint when you have two or more web parts on a page they potentially [...]
Showing and Hiding Reports & Other Cognos Objects – Part 1
May 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
In ensuring that our web parts, in particular our Navigation Web Part, only show those folders, packages, reports and other Cognos object types that a user is permitted to see, we have had to fully understand all the options available for Cognos Adminstrators in Cognos Connection. Why that is hard for Solution Providers like QueryVision [...]
The Two Faces of Search
May 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With our Version 2.2 release of the QueryVision SharePoint Web Parts, we have added a Cognos Components Web Part which provides access to many Cognos Connection features, including exposing the Cognos Search capability for all supported versions of Cognos, including Cognos 10. With Cognos 10, IBM has now added [the former] GO! Search as part of the [...]
Getting Started with QueryVision Web Parts for Cognos
May 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
This article focuses on setting up our SharePoint Web Parts for Cognos integration. After running through our installation and deployment for QueryVision Web Parts you are well on your way to having Cognos integrated directly into SharePoint. If you have not installed and deployed your web parts yet make sure you read through the install [...]
