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  • 1.  Can we add a report into Dashboard

    Posted Thu March 05, 2020 02:37 AM
    HI All

    Can we add a report with full functionality in Cognos Dashboard.
    Thanks in advance..

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    Hashim Raza
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  • 2.  RE: Can we add a report into Dashboard

    Posted Thu March 05, 2020 06:02 AM
    Hey Hashim,
    At the moment the native/supported functionality is to copy dashboard objects into a report, not vice versa.

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    Matt Denham
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  • 3.  RE: Can we add a report into Dashboard

    Posted Thu March 05, 2020 09:32 AM
    Can you try using Web page Object containing Report URL in Dashboard?

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    Buddhi Gupta
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  • 4.  RE: Can we add a report into Dashboard

    Posted Fri March 06, 2020 07:57 AM
    ​Hi Hashim,

    You can embed a report on a dashboard using the Web Page widget -- provided that your Cognos server accepts URL's that are HTTPS.  I've done this with my clients and it works well. If your Cognos Server has an HTTPS URL, then you can use the Share action on the report you wish to embed, copy the URL, and paste that as the URL for a Web Page widget on the dashboard.

    The report runs within the widget just like invoking that URL directly from your browser - you'll get a full view of the Cognos portal within the widget, with the navigation bar, application bar, and so on.  Most of my clients maximize the widget on the page, placing the report as the only object on the dashboard tab. I've not encountered any limitations (conditional formatting works, prompting works, etc.).

    The "Managing Cognos Analytics" manual will give you additional URL parameters to do things like turn off the navigation bar and application bar so they don't show in the widget.

    Note:  You cannot pass values from the dashboard into the report by setting values in the filter dock or by selecting values in a visualization, nor can your report communicate selected values to your dashboard.  E.g. the embedded report is not a Dashboard visualization and thus doesn't listen and talk the way a visualization does.

    If you need to pass values to a report from your Dashboard then you might consider using the drill through capability rather than embedding the report on a tab.  With drill through you can send values from the dashboard to the report parameters (filter settings in the docks, selected values from visualizations, local filters on visualizations).

    I hope this gives you some ideas!

    Rich


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    Richard Chester
    Director of Business Intelligence
    LPA Software Solutions
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  • 5.  RE: Can we add a report into Dashboard

    Posted Fri March 06, 2020 09:09 AM
    To avoid Appbar and Navbar, you can add parameters to url: 

    &ui_appbar=false&ui_navbar=fale

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    Buddhi Gupta
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