You can enable sharing of drill-through actions
in a page. When a user drills from a source report to a target report,
the target report appears in the specified area of the page.
For this feature to work, a
page must have a report that contains an authored drill-through path.
The page must also contain a placeholder IBM® Cognos® Viewer portlet that is
set up to receive the drill-through requests.
Report-based
drill-through works with both interactive reports and saved report
outputs. However, it only works for a single drill-through request.
If the drill-through contains multiple targets, it must be invoked
from the context menu.
This functionality is enabled using
the Channel property of the IBM Cognos Viewer
portlet. You must specify the same channel name for the portlet that
contains the source report and the portlet that receives the target
report. By default, drill-through actions are disabled in a page.
This
functionality is not supported for dashboards with multiple tabs.
However, a single page with drill-through actions enabled can be embedded
into a dashboard as one of the tabs.
Procedure
- In IBM Cognos Connection, create a page that contains
the IBM Cognos Viewer portlets for the drill-through
source report, and the target report.
For more detailed
information, see the steps in the section Create a Page.
- Configure one of the IBM Cognos Viewer portlets to display
the Report Studio source report that contains the drill-through path.
In the portlet properties page, click Select
an entry to select the report you want to display in the
portlet.
- Configure the other IBM Cognos Viewer portlet to display
the drill-through target report.
As the target report,
we recommend using a report that contains prompts.
In the
portlet properties page, click Select an entry to
select the report you want to display in the portlet.
- For both portlets configured in step 2 and 3, in the Set
the properties page, for the Report-based drill-through property,
select the Communicate with other portlets on the page check
box, and type the channel name in the box provided.
The
channel name is mandatory.
For more information about this
property, click the Help button in the portlet.
