Hi Jason,
we opted for having report collections that share a common menu bar. In principle, that's a horizontal table containing some drill through definitions.
The menu bar is inserted as a layout component reference, so we only need one reference report per report collection. To make things more comfortable, we created a template for new menu bar reports. It contains some CSS and a custom control, just to make the whole thing look a bit smoother, enable drop down menu functionality and the like. The added functionallity is not strictly necessary, of course. Yet, it's easier than it sounds, and it really was fun developing it.
By now, our users don't remember that this menu bar is no standard Cognos functionality. So they accept it without thinking.
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Thomas Wolf
BI-Manager
Techniker Krankenkasse
Hamburg
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri June 20, 2025 08:59 AM
From: Jason Kapp
Subject: Cognos Analytics Replacement for Portal Pages
With the likelihood of portal pages being deprecated in the future, I would like to ask what you have done or plan to do to replace them?
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Jason Kapp
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