Creating a Portal Page

You want to create a personal page that includes all of the reports and content that you worked on in the previous exercises so that you can easily view the content each time you log on to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

Things to notice:

- In a portal page, you can add IBM Cognos content (such as business intelligence reports), utilities (such as URLs and bookmarks), and third-party portlets.
- You can make a portal page available to a group in your organization, such as to the sales team, or you can create a portal page for your personal use.

Procedure:

1. Open IBM Cognos Connection
  - Start your Web browser
  - In the address bar, type the URL supplied by your administrator, and then press Enter. The URL looks something like this: http://servername/cognos.

1. In the IBM Cognos Welcome page, click IBM Cognos content and then click New Page.

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1. Type the name My Sample Outdoors page, click Select My Folders as the location for the new page, and click Next.

1. Specify the page layout.
  - Under Number of columns, select two columns.
  - Change the width of the first column to 40% and the second column to 60%.

1. Add content to your page
  - Under the first column, click Add.
  - Click IBM Cognos Content.

- - Select the IBM Cognos Navigator, IBM Cognos Search, and IBM Cognos Viewer portlets. Click Add. Tip: You can preview the content of the portlets by clicking View This Portlet.

- - Click OK.
  - In the first column, click IBM Cognos Viewer and click the right arrow.

- - Click Next

1. Define the appearance of the page:
  - In the Title box, type My Sample Outdoors page. Tip: You can change the formatting of the text.

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- - Click Next
  - Select the Add this page to the portal tabs check box.

- - Click Finish
  - The My Sample Outdoors page that you created appears as a tab in IBM Cognos Connection.

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1. Enhance the content of your page:
  - Click the My Sample Outdoors page tab.

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- - In the IBM Cognos Viewer portlet title bar, click Edit
  - Under Entry, click Select an entry. Click Public Folders, Samples, Models,GO Data Warehouse (analysis), and Query Studio Report Samples. Select
    - the Return Quantity by Product Line Chart sample report and click OK.

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- - - Tip: You can also use any other sample report

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- - Under Height (pixels), type 600

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- - Click OK

The report now appears in your portal page.

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If the report was not previously run and saved, click the run button in the IBM Cognos Viewer portlet. In the Run with options page, click Save the report and then click Run

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