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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: kennyyeungkw on 26 Oct 2010 04:35:05 AM

Title: Page Layout and comumication between Portal Problem !
Post by: kennyyeungkw on 26 Oct 2010 04:35:05 AM
I am creating a Dashboard using page,My dashboard look like the following :
(http://bobby.com8.hk/Portal1.JPG)
There is a search area on the top to store the global parameter .
User can select the parameter and it will pass the parameter to the rest of the portal.

However , In the page layout ,i can only select between this 3
(http://bobby.com8.hk/layout.JPG)

So at this moment ,i can only create the dashboard like
(http://bobby.com8.hk/Portal2.JPG)
Portal 2 and Portal 3 are grouped
Portal 4 and Portal 5 are grouped

Is there any possible way to separated them to maintain the layout without affect the function.

I have tried to add a new page to separated Portal 2 and Portal 3 and then add it back to another page .
It work in layout ,But the portal can't communicate with each other . Help !







Portal1.JPG
Title: Re: Page Layout and comumication between Portal Problem !
Post by: NaviGator on 26 Oct 2010 11:50:25 AM
I don't think that there will be a direct solution for your problem. As you mentioned, you can do it using pages but you will have a problem in Portal Communications.

I have another solution but I don't know if it will be applicable in your case. You can create your Dashboard in Report Studio in a single report by using a table object to format the Dashboard the way you want. Then you can create a page and add a viewer in it. The Viewer should point to the report you have created.

Is this applicable for you? If not tell me we can think of something else ..
Title: Re: Page Layout and comumication between Portal Problem !
Post by: kennyyeungkw on 26 Oct 2010 10:14:35 PM
The original version of my dashboard is using table object to build .
However,because of some performance issue and better reuse of the search area ,we started to change by using portal.

Now , the problem is solved .
I found that ,portal can communicate by using channel.