Cognos Portlets

Portal Services provides a number of portlets.

Users can add portlets to their personal pages in IBM® Cognos® Connection Pages and Dashboards, or in an existing enterprise portal Cognos portlet use with other portals.

All Cognos portlets conform to the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard. Users can interact with the portlets without installing IBM Cognos products on their computers.

The content that appears in the portlets, such as reports, or metrics, and the ability to perform specific actions on that content depend on the users' access permissions. Users must have the required access permissions for the individual entries and for the IBM Cognos secured functions and features. For more information, see Secured Functions and Features.

The following portlets are available.

IBM Cognos Content Portlets

These portlets provide IBM Cognos content in IBM Cognos Connection or in your existing enterprise portal. By default, these portlets are available in IBM Cognos Administration. They can also be deployed to other portals.

The following portlets are available in this group:

Table 1. Content portlets
Portlet	Description
IBM Cognos Navigator IBM Cognos Navigator	Shows the IBM Cognos Connection folder hierarchy. Users can browse the hierarchy and open IBM Cognos entries.
IBM Cognos Search IBM Cognos Search	Provides a search tool to help users find published IBM Cognos reports and other entries, and open them.
IBM Cognos Viewer IBM Cognos Viewer (IBM Cognos Connection)	Opens a default report or lists reports that users can open.

IBM Cognos Utility Portlets

The IBM Cognos Utility portlets provide additional functionality for pages in IBM Cognos Connection. By default, these portlets are available in IBM Cognos Administration. However, they cannot be deployed to other portals.

The following portlets are available in this group.

Table 2. Utility portlets
Portlet	Description
Bookmarks Viewer Bookmarks Viewer	Registers and shows active Web links.
HTML Viewer HTML Viewer	Inserts any Web page into an IBM Cognos Connection page.
Image Viewer Image Viewer	Inserts an image and shows it in a page.
RSS Viewer RSS Viewer	Shows the content of a Real Simple Syndication (RSS) 1.0 or 2.0 news feed. RSS is a format for syndicating news and is used by many Web sites. An RSS news feed is specified by a URL address.
HTML Source HTML Source	Use to add custom text and images to a page.

The IBM Cognos Extended Applications Portlet

The IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlet IBM Cognos Extended Applications provides access to custom applications created using the IBM Cognos Extended Applications toolkit and the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit.

If IBM Cognos Software Development Kit is installed, this portlet is automatically registered and available in IBM Cognos Administration. It can also be deployed to other portals.

For information about creating extended applications, see the Developer Guide.

IBM Cognos Metric Studio Portlets

IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets provide the capability to view performance metrics in a page. The metrics are created using Metric Studio.

If Metric Studio is installed, these portlets are automatically registered and available in IBM Cognos Administration. They can also be deployed to other portals.

The following portlets are available in this group:

Table 3. Metric Studio portlets
Portlet	Description
IBM Cognos Metric List IBM Cognos Metric List	Use to add performance metrics to a page. You can configure the portlet to show the following types of metric lists: Watch list Contains the metrics that a user wants to monitor closely. Accountability list Contains the metrics that a user owns. Scorecard metric list Contains metrics associated with a scorecard. Strategy metric list Contains metrics associated with a strategy. To show the metrics grouped by scorecards, select the Apply a scorecard filter check box.
IBM Cognos History Chart IBM Cognos History Chart	Use to add a metric history chart to a page. The history chart is a graphical illustration of the historical performance of a metric.
IBM Cognos Impact Diagram IBM Cognos Impact Diagram	Use to display impact diagrams associated with a metric.
IBM Cognos Custom Diagram IBM Cognos Custom Diagram	Use to display custom diagrams associated with a scorecard.

For more information, see the Metric Studio User Guide.

Dashboard Portlets

The dashboard portlets provide the framework and content for the dashboard pages in IBM Cognos Connection.

Table 4. Dashboard portlets
Portlet	Description
Multi-page Multi-page	Use to create a dashboard with multiple pages.