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Chapter 4: Deploy Cubes and Reports Subject or Feature Cognos <strong>Series</strong> 7 Cognos ReportNet and Cognos 8 NewsBox names Upfront supports duplicate NewsBox names at the same level. Cognos Connection does not support duplicate folder names at the same level. When moving NewsBoxes from the same level with duplicate names, only one Cognos Connection folder is created. To avoid errors, ensure that all NewsBoxes at the same level have unique names. If there are no conflicts related to duplicate NewsBox names, the NewsItems are moved to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 with full functionality. NewsItem names Report links Security Upfront supports duplicate NewsItem names in the same NewsBox. Upfront supports PowerPlay report link NewsItems. Upfront supports Access Control Lists (ACLs). Cognos Connection does not support duplicate cube, report or link names in the same folder. When moving NewsItems from the same level with duplicate names, only one item is moved. Other items with duplicate names are not moved and are reported as errors in the log file. To avoid errors, ensure that all NewsItems at the same level have unique names. If there are no conflicts related to duplicate NewsItem names, the cube or report NewsItem is moved to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 with full functionality. Report links are not supported in Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8. The source report is moved instead. To avoid errors, ensure that the target of a report link does not create a naming conflict when moving the content. If there are no conflicts related to duplicate NewsBox or NewsItem names, the source report is moved to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 with full functionality. The Upfront ACL information is not moved to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8. By default, access to the moved content is not restricted. You must set permissions on all objects in Cognos Connection. 48 Cognos PowerPlay (R)
Chapter 4: Deploy Cubes and Reports Web Reports Test a Connection Publish to Upfront PowerPlay Enterprise Server provides several ways to make your data available to authorized users on the Web. Report authors can publish their findings from a PowerPlay client application directly to Upfront. As an administrator, you can bulk publish or update reports and cubes to Upfront or Cognos Connection using PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration or the ppadmtool command-line interface. In addition to the portal, cubes and reports that you add are, by default, included in a PowerPlay Web table of contents. Web reports are rendered in HTML or PDF format. These industry standard formats allow for a level of customization to be applied as the reports are generated. You use the Display settings for cubes and reports to customize the output to the Web. You can connect to a cube or report to ensure that it is accessible from the Web and properly configured. PowerPlay Enterprise server starts the Web browser and connects to the cube or report. For protected cubes, you must provide authentication information, such as a user ID or password, before the Web page appears in the browser. If you can't connect, you may be able to determine the cause of the error from logged auditing information. Steps 1. In PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration, select a cube or report. 2. From the Tools menu, click Open with Browser. 3. If authentication properties are defined for this cube, enter the required information and click Log On. Notes • The Open with Browser command is not available for cubes set for Windows access only. You can publish cubes and reports as Upfront NewsItems to provide Web users with single click access to the data in PowerPlay Web Explorer and PowerPlay Web Viewer. If you publish a folder, all the cubes and reports in the folder are published to an Upfront NewsBox. In order to publish cubes and reports from PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration to Upfront, Access Manager security (p. 24) must be set. Both the NewsBox to be published to and the Upfront server group are folder object properties and must be set before attempting to publish. The PowerPlay Enterprise Server Administration must be secured against the same namespace as the NewsIndex before attempting to publish. If the server is not secured, you are prompted to secure it when you click Publish to Portal. Also, the Default Portal property (p. 84) must be set to Upfront. You cannot publish to Upfront any PowerPlay Portable Report files (.ppx) that have local cube references, only those with remote cube references. PowerPlay Portable Report files are published from PowerPlay client applications and can be added to the PowerPlay Enterprise Server (p. 41). You can update all .ppx files that have local cube references to have remote cube references instead. For more information, see "Update Reports to Reference Remote Cubes" (p. 42). Users can connect to Upfront from their Web browsers using the following URL: http://server name/cognos/ Steps 1. In PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration, select a cube, report, or folder. Note: Do not publish content located in the imported_reports folder. 2. From the Tools menu, click Publish to Portal. Enterprise Server Guide 49
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