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Paul Mendelson

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Posted By Paul Mendelson Tue July 29, 2025 05:06 AM
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SSO is definitely the problem here. Basically the webserver is trying to authenticate the user before the authentication request has been submitted. The solution I've found for SSO implementations is to make a URL rewrite rule in a location that is not covered by SSO. ------------------------------ ...
Posted By Paul Mendelson Thu July 10, 2025 06:54 AM
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I have three solutions for you, two of them are CogBox and the third way works straight out of the box. Let's start with the CogBox ones because a man's gotta eat. Set Filters with Global Parameters This solution uses the global filters in Cognos against whatever filters you have in your tabs. ...
Posted By Paul Mendelson Tue May 27, 2025 02:41 PM
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If you're willing to use third party software, my Object Search in CogBox handles this quite well. When you do a search for users it runs the expressbus/content-manager API to get a list of all accounts. As users log in, I have a script that automatically records their identity and capabilities into ...
Posted By Paul Mendelson Wed April 30, 2025 02:23 AM
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This isn't a great solution, but you can try this. Place an HTML item on the page with this: #AppToolbarRightPane_btnFilters(display:none) The problem I have with it is that the filters button does appear for a moment while the report is rendering. ------------------------------ Paul Mendelson ...
Posted By Paul Mendelson Thu January 30, 2025 04:30 AM
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#length( join('', substr(split(';',promptmany('Fruit','integer')),0,1) ) )# Split the prompt many into an array of values. [123,234,345,456,567] substring each element to a single character [1,2,3,4,5] join into a string with no separator 12345 count the characters ...