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we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

Hi, Interesting question. What are your (minimal) layout requirements for these watermarks (e.g. text, pictures, size, background-only, ...)?

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

This is difficult. One way I can think of doing this is to add a conditional style that checks the report location and then adds the watermark if it's saved in a governed report location. 

Take a look at the attached report. When it's saved in a folder called Governed at the root directory it will show the IBM logo as a watermark, but it will not show in any other folder.

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

hi Paul, thanks, I am going to play with this. Do you recommend to add this to a template and can we make the condititonal style immutable?

This is difficult. One way I can think of doing this is to add a conditional style that checks the report location and then adds the watermark if it's saved in a governed report location. 

Take a look at the attached report. When it's saved in a folder called Governed at the root directory it will show the IBM logo as a watermark, but it will not show in any other folder.

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

You could add it to a template, but it wouldn't be immutable. I'm trying to find another way where it would be automatic. Do you need this in PDF/Excel or only HTML?

hi Paul, thanks, I am going to play with this. Do you recommend to add this to a template and can we make the condititonal style immutable?

This is difficult. One way I can think of doing this is to add a conditional style that checks the report location and then adds the watermark if it's saved in a governed report location. 

Take a look at the attached report. When it's saved in a folder called Governed at the root directory it will show the IBM logo as a watermark, but it will not show in any other folder.

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?

Another thought - can you set up another Cognos instance specifically for governed reports? You could override the global css parameters to add a watermark. I'm not seeing a pure css solution. The path of the report isn't available from inside the report, if it was you could do some tricks with css selectors. 

we offer two " flavors" on our reporting portal : governed reports and managed end-user reports. Both flavors can be selected by an organizational unit. As both are created in the report module and look the same, we want to add a non-removable watermark signature to a template (governed reports can only be developed on a test platform) to distinguish these reports online and as saved output from normal reports. Most challenging is to create it in such a way that the watermark cannot be removed at a later stage or added to a normal report. 

Does anyone had a similar demand and was able to solve it or do people have ideas how to configure the Cognos platform to enable this?