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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: ofer.g on 26 Jul 2015 02:42:03 AM

Title: import geoset into map manager
Post by: ofer.g on 26 Jul 2015 02:42:03 AM
hey there
when ever i try to import a geoset in to map manager it gives me an error saying due to missing labels for geoset name or layer name/
does anybody know what's wrong?
possibly some thing from mapinfo...
TNKS
Title: Re: import geoset into map manager
Post by: bdbits on 27 Jul 2015 03:30:36 PM
Importing and using external maps in Cognos is not very well documented, and Cognos is very picky about the incoming map format. I pasted this from the Map Manager help file under "Import a Map from a Non IBM Source".

    The MapInfo tab files must be referenced by *.gst files.
    Map objects (regions and points) must have an identifier. The identifier must be in the first column of the associated MapInfo table and must be non-numeric.
    If aliases are defined for the identifiers, they must be in any column except the first column.

Does anything there apply? I have not done this in a while, but if that does not help I will try to dig up any notes I have about the export/import processes.