COGNOS Business Intelligence Series 7

Chapter 5: Provide Drill-through Access
Steps
1. In Cognos Connection, click Public Folders or My Folders.
2. Click New Folder.
3. In the Name box, type a name for the folder and click Finish.
4. Click Set Properties for the folder you created.
5. Click View the Search Path and then select the search path of the folder.
Note: You will need the exact search path of the target reports folder when you enable the
cube for drill through to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8. The format for the search path
includes the report name and is:
/content/package[@name=’Go Sales and Retailers’]/folder[@name=’Report Studio Report
Samples’]/report[@name=’Global Sales (1)’].
You will need to select only the section of the path that relates to the folder and exclude the
report name specification. For example, in the above path, you will want to select only:
/content/package[@name=’Go Sales and Retailers’]/folder[@name=’Report Studio Report
Samples’]
6. Click CTRL+C to copy the path to the clipboard, and click Close.
Set the Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8 Environment
To enable drill through to Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8, you must specify the server location
and a folder location for Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8.
Steps
1. In PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration, click a cube.
Note: You must set up drill through for this cube before you can enable it in PowerPlay
Enterprise - Server Administration (p. 62).
2. From the Edit menu, click Properties, and then click the Cube Settings tab.
3. In the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 box (Drill Through), click Enable.
4. In the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 server box, select appropriate gateway type.
For example, type http://server name/crn/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi.
5. In the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 folder box, click CTRL+V to paste the Cognos
Connection folder search path from the clipboard.
This is the folder name that you copied to the clipboard when you created the target folder
(p. 68).
Note: In Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8, you can set up only one folder to contain
drill-through targets for your PowerPlay Web cubes. However, more than one cube can drill
through to this folder.
6. In the Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 Assistance box, click Enable.
This enables the Assist Drill Through page, to help you set up drill through in the cube.
7. Click Apply and then click OK.
Select Filters for the Target Report
When you enable Cognos ReportNet/Cognos 8 Assistance in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server
Administration, clicking Drill Through on your cube opens the Cognos ReportNet or Cognos 8
Assist Drill Through page. Use this page to identify the parameters that are defined for the drill
through report.
Steps
1. In PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration, click the cube to select it.
2. Click Open with Browser on the Tools menu.
The cube opens in PowerPlay Web Explorer.
3. Navigate the dimensions in your cube until you have created the desired filtered view for drill
through.
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