Access CQs and Cubes from external portal!!

[susheeltips]

Hi Guys!
Did anyone in this forum happen to work with integrating cognos portal with external portal. If so, can someone tell me how to give access to the users from external portal to the CQ reports and cubes that are already published to upfront?

Thanks in advance..

 

[coneho]

You have to use the Access Manager Trusted Signon SDK.

First of all you need to user the OS signons in the Directory Server (I am assuming you are using one). By doing so, you are letting Cognos know that it does not have to Authenticate the user. The user is already authenticated and the user is coming from the OS.

Secondly, you the trusted signon SDK and register the DLL (I am assuming a windows environment) with the Upfront / WebServer. The DLL is a peice of code written by you which has been compiled. What the code does is goes to an external application and fetches the username (NOT the password). It then passes this on to Cognos, 'fooling' Cognos into thinking that this is an OS user name (and therefore don't bother authenticating this user).

So to answer your query, you have to used the trusted signon SDK. Write your code (the sample code in VC++ in the PDF does the job of only passing a hard coded user name to access manager) to get the username from an external application.

Hope this helps.

-El Coneho

 

[susheeltips]

Hey Coneho!
Thanks for the suggesstion, i would like to know if you happened to implement the Trusted Signon in an Unix environment.

Thanks,

 

[esselinj]

You could also use Cognos Webservices to integrate Cognos Webtools into other applications like external portals. For PowerPLay HTML reports and -cube you could use URL in the external portal. Therefor you should press the Hyperlink button in the view you wish to have. THis view you can copy and paste into the external portal.

The Access Manager SDK is only applicable to integrate Cognos security with external security systems to have a single signon

Jacl

 

[susheeltips]

Hi coneho!
Can you please tell me what changes you have made to the SaferAPI.c file to implement the single signon functionality.

thanks in advance.