Changing the style of report objects in IBM Cognos Workspace

When you drag a report object onto a workspace, it appears in the silver and blue gradient style of your product. You can configure the report object appear in the original authored style by changing a global property in the IBM® Cognos® Viewer configuration file.

Report objects that are affected by the global setting include queries, analyses, reports, and report parts that were authored using IBM Cognos Version 1.x style, Version 8.x style, and financial (balance sheet) style. These objects pick up the global setting even if you saved them before changing the global setting. Workspace thumbnails are affected by the global setting only if you rerun the thumbnail.

Some report objects are not affected by the global setting and will always render in the authored style, such as PowerPlay® reports and report object thumbnails.

Procedure

  1. For each Content Manager and Application Tier Components instance, go to thec10_location/webapps/p2pd/WEB-INF/classes directory.
  2. Open the viewerconfig.properties file in a text editor.
  3. To make report objects appear in the original authored style, change the value for useAuthoredReportStyles to true.
  4. Save the file and then restart the services.
Parent topic: Customizing the Appearance of IBM Cognos BI