Cognos Report Error

[mobajwa]

I am a newbie with cognos. I have an issue with an occasional error in
cognos. When i enter cognos with my browser I see something like windows explorer with folder structure on the left and the active folder contents on the right. When i click on a report on the left hand side of the pane , it some times gives me an error. On the other hand if i click on the parent folder so that the report shows up in the active folders contents in the right hand side window, and then i click on ACTIONS right under the report and then RUN , it runs fine !
Is there any reason as to why this happens.Is there is a fix or do i always have to go under REPORT >> ACTIONS and then RUN , instead of just clicking on the report title to run it.


(I hope i made some sense, if not a lot )

 

[Talon55]

It sounds like you are using Cognos Upfront with IWR reports. (Correct me if I'm wrong) A possible reason for your problem is that the default action (not controlled by you) of the given report is not to "run", but to "view" when clicked...and the latest view ran into error...which is why you can't see anything valuable. You may want to check with your administrator to see 1.) what is the default action on the report. 2.)if the default action is "view", have the administrator re-run the report.

 

[mobajwa]

Thanx for the reply. I got another colution from someone else and it worked. im posting it here too :

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My assumption is you are the IWR administrator, otherwise you may or may not be able to do the following suggestions. Someone could have saved a bad version of the report output. If you click on actions select version is there a list of output? You may need to go to actions/delet version and delete all of them.