Using Search Paths and Page IDs

When building URLs, you need to know the search paths of the objects you want to access using the URLs.

If you want to access an IBM® Cognos® Connection page, you can use its search paths or its ID. Search paths define the fully qualified location of the entry in the content store and are not installation-specific. IDs are installation-specific. For ease of use, we recommend that you access the page using search paths. For more information, see Using a Page ID Instead of the Object Search Path.

When using the cognosLaunch method, you specify the object's search path after the "ui.object" parameter.

If you are using the parameterized URL method, specify the object's search path using the following m_page parameter format, where search path is the search path of the page object:

&m_page=path:[[search
path]]

For example,

m_page=path:/content/folder[@name='Public
Pages']/pagelet[@name='EP
portlet Demo'

Tip: To find the page search path and ID in IBM Cognos Connection, navigate to the folder that contains the page and click the page properties button. On the General tab, click View the search path, ID and URL.