IBM Cognos Viewer

Use this portlet to view and interact with published IBM® Cognos® reports, workspaces, and other entries in your portal.

The following table shows the properties that you can change.

Table 1. Cognos Viewer portlet properties
Property	Description
Title	Specifies the title of the portlet. If no title is specified, the entry name is used by default. You can specify a title for each supported language version of the product. Note: The title does not appear in WebSphere®, WCI, and SAP portals.
Language	Specifies the product language version in which the title appears. You can assign the same title for multiple language versions.
Entry	Specifies the location of the entry, such as a report, to display in this portlet. You can search the folders to locate the entry.
Enable automatic resize for charts	This property is only appears when the IBM Cognos Viewer portlets are deployed to the Liferay portal. Use it when the report displayed in the Viewer portlet contains charts. If selected, the report will automatically re-size to fit the portlet's window. If the portlet resizes, then the displayed report will re-size too.
Channel	Enables communication between this portlet and other Cognos portlets. To set up communication between specific portlets, type the same channel name for the portlets that you want to interact. The channel name can contain only letters, numbers, and underscore (_) characters, and must not contain any spaces. For example, Cognos, Cognos_Portlets, or CognosPortlets.
Portlet action	Specifies the report run options. You can choose to show the most recent saved report output, show a run option button that a user can activate, or run the report.
Show toolbar	Specifies whether to show the portlet toolbar in the normal or maximized view. This applies to reports only. Note: The maximized view is not available in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.
Workspace options	Specifies which elements of the IBM Cognos workspace must be hidden when the workspace is viewed in a portal page. For information about the elements that can be hidden, see the description of the workspace user interface in the IBM Cognos Workspace User Guide.
Portlet width in pixels	Specifies the portlet width in pixels. If the report image is larger than this setting, scroll bars appear when you view the report.
Portlet height in pixels	Specifies the portlet height in pixels. If the report is larger than this setting, scroll bars appear when you view the report.
Do not wait for this portlet content to show the page	When disabled, specifies that the page will wait for content. When enabled, specifies that the page does not wait for content.
Publish Location	Specifies the default publish location for report output. Valid for SharePoint 2010 only. For information about setting this property, see IBM Cognos BI and SharePoint 2010 Collaboration.
Discussion Board	Specifies the default discussion board for report output. Valid for SharePoint 2010 only. For information about setting this property, see IBM Cognos BI and SharePoint 2010 Collaboration.

How To Modify the Properties

To modify the properties for this portlet, click the edit button to open the properties page. If the edit button is disabled or not visible, the administrator did not make these settings available to you. For more information, see Control Access to Portlets.

In the portlet properties page, to reset the default portlet settings, or to return to the settings specified by your administrator, click the reset button Reset icon in the portlet title bar. To exit the properties page without saving the changes, click the return button Return icon or click Cancel.

Tip:

In SAP Enterprise Portal, portlets are named iViews. This document may refer to iViews as portlets.
In Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, portlets are named Web Parts. This document may refer to Web Parts as portlets.