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Cognos 8 Cognos Connection
Cognos CoE
Internal and Confidential
Cognos Connection
Query Studio
Ad hoc Reporting
Report Studio
Report Authoring
Report Viewer
Viewer
Analysis Studio
Analysis
Cognos Connection
(Web portal)
Event Studio
Event Cycle Mgmt.
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Cognos Connection (*)
• Cognos Connection
– Out-of-the-box user interface
• Tools :
• Open
– Private labeling (OEM or customer)
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Cognos Connection - Administrator
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Directory
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Drill Through definitions
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Navigate through while Analyzing Report
Portal administration
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Manage portlet and
portal layout
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Cognos Connection – Administrator (cont)
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Capabilities
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Set access rights to UI components and features
Server administration
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Monitor
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Configure
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Schedule management
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Content Administration
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Administrate jobs
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Cognos Connection – User
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Public folders
– Packages
– Folders
– Reports
– Custom views
– Jobs
– Agents
My folders
– Personal reports
My pages
Schedule management
Preferences
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Pages and Portal pages
• A Portal page is a page that is shown in the Cognos Connection portal.
• A page is a content object.
• A user can :
– create his/her own page.
– save it in Public Folders or My Folders.
– as any other object, it can be access restricted (security).
– add the page as part of the Cognos Connection portal (portal page)
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Pages and Portal pages (cont)
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Pages and Portlets
• A page contents portlets.
Portlet:
A mechanism for displaying Web content as part of a portal page.
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Portal Pages & Portlets
• The portlets can content:
- WebSites
- Bookmarks
- Cognos Tools (Query Studio, Report Studio, Power Play Web, Cognos Query, Upfront , Visualizer)
- Graphs
- Maps
- RSS NewsFeeds
- Reports
- Folder Navigator
- Watchlist Metrics (CMM),..
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Portlet to Portlet Communication
• One portlet can interact with another portlet.
• The action on one portlet is reflected in another portlet.
Portlet Sources:
Portlet Destiny
- Cognos Navigator
- Cognos Search
Cognos Viewer Portlet
- Bookmark Viewer
- Image Viewer
- RSS Viewer
HTML Viewer Portlet
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Portlet to Portlet Communication
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Customizing Cognos Connection
Default.css
System.xml
-color fonts
-graphics
Portal_en.xml
-modify functionality
-text in a language
-hide elements in UI
-use your own welcome page
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Customizing Welcome Page
Default.css
Change the fonts, colors, graphics, layout
System.xml
Map your own Welcome page
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Administrator vs. User
• Administrator can:
– Set the presentation features for all the users or for one specific user (Set Default Profile or
one specific user’s Profile).
– Modify the content of “My Folders” for a specific user.
– Modify user Preferences at the user level (the Preference is per user not per groups)
– Set what styles are available for user / groups / roles.
• User can set:
– His/her own Preference:
• User can create his/her own page and defined it as a default page
• Change the style.
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Workshop 1
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Cognos Connection:
Customizing the Cognos Connection
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What is WSRP?
• WSRP is Web Service for Remote Portlets
• Defines how to plug remote web services into pages of online portals.
• WSRP is an open standard.
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WSRP and Cognos Connection
• Cognos Portal Services portlets are based on WSRP 1.0 specifications.
• Some third-party applications that follows the WSRP are:
– SAP
- Cognos Connection
– IBM WebSphere
- Plumtree
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