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Product(s): IBM Cognos 10 Mobile

Area of Interest: Reporting


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The purpose of this document is demonstrate how to create Active Reports inReportStudio that will enable disconnected linking to other Active Reportsrunning in the IBM Cognos Mobile app running on the Apple iPad.

What is outlined in this document requires IBM Cognos 10 RP1, with FP3 forIBM Cognos Mobile installed.

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The following document will provide step by step instructions on how to useApplication Drill-Throughs to do disconnected linking in ReportStudio for anActive Report.

Introduced in FP3 for IBM Cognos Mobile is the ability to use Application Drill-Through definition in ReportStudio to allow an iPad Active Report todisconnected linking to another Active Report

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1. Select the control you wish to setup Application Drill-Through on

2. On the Properties for the that object select the Application Drill-Through

under Interactive Behavior to display the Application Drill-Through dialog box

3. Click the New button on the bottom right of the Application Drill-Through

dialog box.

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4. Add a Name for the drill through definition Note: this name is not exposed to

the user

5. Enter for the Method (it must be cogmobgr)

6. Enter a label; this label is exposed to the user on the iPad

7. Click the New button under the Parameters at the bottom of the dialog box

8. Enter

9. With the Static Value(s) option button selected enter the store id for the

target report click the New button to add a static value

10. Enter a new Static Value on the dialog box.

Note: store id can be found on the properties of the report in Cognos

Connection

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(for example: i0F10608D19D14A84BB03223DD83AED2C)

11. Click OK twice

12. Repeat this process for the Search Path

13.Click the New button under the Parameters at the bottom of the dialog box

14.Enter

15.With the Static Value(s) option button selected enter the search path for the

target report click the New button to add a static value

16. Enter a new Static Value on the dialog box.

Note: search path can be found on the properties of the report in Cognos

Connection

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(for example:

/content/folder[@name='salem']/interactiveReport[@name='App Drill Child

Year 2005'])

17. Click OK twice

18. Repeat this process for every report that you wish to drill to.

1. All context you wish to pass from the Source to the Target report must have

the variable declared as Public (External)

For example varPL is set for Public (External) and will pass the value of the

variable to the target report when the drill through is invoked

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2. A variable must be created to enable the drill through definition to occur.

In this example varDrill is associated to Pie chart control and the variable

value is set to an arbitrary string value (in this case drill).

3. On the target reports all variables must be declared as Public (External) if

they are to receive context from the Source report.

4. All variables on the Target report must have the same name as the Source

variables.

1. Schedule the group of reports as a job so that they arrive on the iPad

together and have equally fresh data.

2. DrillTarget.AgeDifferenceReRunThresholdHours is a new Mobile Service

advanced setting that controls the maximum allowable age difference

between Active Reports for offline linking; if the value is greater between

target and source the reports will not be available for disconnected linking.

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1. Reports on My iPad section will display all of the Active Reports in the group

2. After drilling to the Target report use the on the top right in the iPad

application navigate back to the source report.

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