I discussed this with someone at IBM at the last conference in Miami. My understanding was that Active Reports are basically a dead product at this time. They will continue to support and offer functionality for AR, but there will be no more development or enhancements to this tool.
This was due to limitations around file size and improvements to the dashboard that bridge the gap on interactivity between visualizations. I still think there needs to be a way to take a Cognos report/dashboard offline for viewing but a tool to do so does not exist today.
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Todd Schuman
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 28, 2020 08:39 AM
From: Chris Framel
Subject: active reports on a Mac
Has anyone at IBM stated the future of Active Reports?
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Chris Framel
Original Message:
Sent: Tue October 27, 2020 09:47 AM
From: Todd Schuman
Subject: active reports on a Mac
Hi Bill,
I can not longer test as I don't have a Mac now, but I recall being able to do this.
Another option would be to install Parallels and run a Windows VM to use IE.
-Todd
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Todd Schuman
Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 26, 2020 09:19 AM
From: BILL DONOVAN
Subject: active reports on a Mac
HI Todd, there does not seem to be a MHTML extension gor Chrome in the Mac version and the application you suggestion will not work on the Mac version of Chrome either.
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BILL DONOVAN
Original Message:
Sent: Thu October 22, 2020 08:29 AM
From: Todd Schuman
Subject: active reports on a Mac
Hi Bill,
It's been a while and I no longer use a Mac, but Chrome has an extension for MHTML viewing that you can use I believe. I found another tool that can view this file type but have not tested it.
EML, MHT Viewer with DriveGoogle | remove preview |
| EML, MHT Viewer with Drive | This utility parses and displays EML(mail message), MHT files. Inline images are displayed both as attachments and in the HTML. | View this on Google > |
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MHT Viewer
HTH,
Todd
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Todd Schuman
Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 21, 2020 07:00 PM
From: BILL DONOVAN
Subject: active reports on a Mac
How do I get an active report to work on a MAC OS?
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BILL DONOVAN
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