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Chapter 2: Configure Servers 4. Click the Environment Variables button. 5. Check the System Variables list. Change Display Settings with Style Sheets PowerPlay Enterprise Server uses a cascading style sheet (CSS) to describe how Web pages are presented in users' Web browsers. You can use the style sheet to customize the look of your pages. For example, you can reverse the font and background colors of table headings for emphasis. For information about cascading style sheets, visit the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site at www.w3.org. The styles are defined in the file ppweb.css, which the PowerPlay server refers to when constructing each HTML page. This file contains a set of default styles and a description of what those styles affect. The style sheet definitions replace display settings for cubes that you set in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration. The only supported method to change display settings in the Enhanced interface of PowerPlay Web is to edit the .css file. Steps 1. Ensure that you back up ppweb.css before editing it. 2. Open the file ppweb.css in a text editor. It is located in the webcontent/ppwb directory. 3. Edit the properties to achieve the view that you want. Descriptions in commented text precede each block. 4. Save and close the file. 5. Ensure that the owner of the web server has read access to ppweb.css. 6. Refresh the browser to see the resulting changes. Notes • Web browsers support CSS in different ways. You should test your style sheets with different Web browsers to be sure you have the correct effect. • You should not delete ppweb.css to disable styles, because some browsers do not function properly when a style sheet is referenced but not found. Instead, comment out the styles you don't want, or load a copy of the original ppweb.css file. Specify the Portal to Which Reports are Published You can specify that reports published from PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration or PowerPlay Web are saved to one of the following portals: • Upfront Upfront is the Web interface to Cognos enterprise applications and other Web data. In PowerPlay Web you can save your report as a primary NewsItem in an Upfront NewsBox. For more information about Upfront, see the Web Portal User Guide. • Cognos Connection Cognos Connection is the portal to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8, the Web-based reporting solution. The Cognos Connection portal provides a single access point to all corporate data available in ReportNet or Cognos 8. For information about publishing reports from PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration, see "Publish to Upfront" (p. 49) or "Publish to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8" (p. 51). For information about publishing reports from PowerPlay Web, see the PowerPlay Web User’s Guide. Steps 1. In PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration, select a server. 18 Cognos PowerPlay (R)
Chapter 2: Configure Servers 2. From the Edit menu, click Properties, and then click the Settings tab. 3. If you want to specify Upfront as the portal, in the Default Portal box (Publishing), click Upfront. 4. If you want to specify Cognos Connection as the portal, do the following: • In the Default Portal box (Publishing), click Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8. • In the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 Gateway URI box (Publishing), type the ReportNet or Cognos 8 external dispatcher URI. For more information, see the Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 Installation and Configuration Guide. • In the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 Dispatcher URI box (Publishing), type the ReportNet or Cognos 8 dispatcher URI. For more information, see the Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 Installation and Configuration Guide. • Specify whether published PowerPlay reports are deleted from the ReportNet or Cognos 8 server when they are deleted from the PowerPlay Enterprise Server. To specify that these reports are deleted, in the Delete related Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 objects when deleting local cubes box (Publishing), click Enabled. 5. Click OK. Enable Data Export on the Web You can allow PowerPlay Web Explorer users to export report data from a cube for use in another application. The exported data is saved using the .csv (comma separated text values) file format, which can be read by applications such as Microsoft Excel. To enable data export, you configure a MIME (multipurpose Internet mail extension) mapping for the Web server and the Web browsers. For information about mapping MIME types, see the documentation provided with your Web server. For more information about exporting data as .csv, see the PowerPlay Web online help. Steps 1. On the Web server, associate the .csv extension with the following MIME type: text/x-csv 2. On user systems (for Internet Explorer) or Web browsers (for Netscape), have users associate the .csv extension with an application used to view the exported data and with the following MIME type: text/x-csv Modify the Locale Settings and Data Formats PowerPlay Web users can change their locale settings in the Table of Contents page (Preferences tab). These settings change the numeric and currency formats that appear in PowerPlay Web pages. Data formats depend on the locale configuration settings for your Cognos <strong>Series</strong> 7 product. By default, Cognos <strong>Series</strong> 7 server products and Cognos Impromptu use a data format configuration file named cerlocale.xml. Cognos Architect, Cognos Visualizer, Cognos PowerPlay for Windows, and Cognos Transformer use Windows Regional Settings for locale settings and data format information. However, these products can also be configured to use the data format configuration file. For information about managing data formats, copying data format information, or editing the data format configuration file, see the Configuration Manager User Guide, or contact your administrator. Enterprise Server Guide 19
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