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Chapter 4: Deploy Cubes and Reports
Some cube properties are common to reports. These common properties are transferred to the
folder named for the cube as report settings. The folder’s report settings are then applied to the
reports in that folder.
From the example above, the sales cubes folder in the imported_reports folder will have the same
properties as the original sales cube folder.
The outdoors folder will have the folder settings from its parent folder.
The report (in this case, named 44_433) will have the following properties from the outdoors
cube:
• Sharing
• Auditing Level
• Publishing
• Screen Resolution
• Drill Through enabling
The migration of these properties is done only once. After the creation of the folders, you will
have to maintain the settings manually. This means that any modification of the cube or folder’s
properties should also be applied to the equivalent cube or folder in the imported_reports folder.
Publish to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8
You can publish cubes and reports to Cognos Connection, the portal to Cognos ReportNet or
Cognos 8, to provide Cognos ReportNet and Cognos 8 users with single click access to data in
PowerPlay Web. If you publish a folder, all the cubes and reports in the folder are published to a
Cognos Connection folder. In order to publish cubes and reports from PowerPlay Enterprise -
Server Administration to Cognos Connection, Access Manager security (p. 24) must be set.
The Cognos Connection folder to be published to is a folder object property (p. 90) and must be
set before attempting to publish. The PowerPlay Enterprise Server must be secured against the
same namespace as the Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 server before attempting to publish. Also,
the Default Portal property (p. 84) must be set to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8.
If these are not set, then the Publish to Portal option is unavailable.
You cannot publish PowerPlay Portable Report files (.ppx) that have local 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).
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Note: Do not publish content located in the imported_reports folder.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.
The cube or report is published to the folder specified in the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8
Folder for Cubes or Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 Folder for Reports properties. This setting
is made at the folder level.
Notes
• Cubes published from PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration become linked items in
Cognos Connection. References to the published reports are added to the Cognos ReportNet
or Cognos 8 server. The references can be deleted by a Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8
administrator, but the objects remain in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration.
• If you publish a folder to Cognos Connection, only the cubes and reports contained in that
folder appear in Cognos Connection. The folder will not appear in Cognos Connection. A
folder hierarchy that you have created in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration is not
maintained when you publish the folder to Cognos Connection.
• In a multiple server environment, if a report or a cube is to be published, you must ensure that
the report or cube resides in a folder mapped to a shared drive using the Mount At option.
For more information, see "Mount At" (p. 28).
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