Copy-pasting whole reports—8.2 to 8.4 possible
This recipe will examine if we can use the copy-paste feature of Report Studio to promote a report from an older version to a newer version.
Getting ready
My dear readers might not be able to experiment with this. I will perform this recipe using two Cognos environments—8.2 and 8.4. Both the environments are configured and have GO Data Warehouse (Query) package published.
How to do it...
- Open any report in Report Studio version 8.2.
- From the menu, choose Tools | Copy Report to Clipboard.
- Open Report Studio instance from higher version of Cognos. I will open one from 8.4. Choose GO Data Warehouse (Query) package.
- In this new instance, select Tools | Open Report from Clipboard from the menu.
- You will see the ...
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