Obtaining information from Cognos

Information must be obtained from Cognos® before you can define reporting fragment fields in OpenPages®.

Table 1. Cognos tasks
Task	Required or optional
Obtaining the report path	Required.
Obtaining the reporting fragment name	Required.
Obtaining the object ID prompt	Required only if a report prompts users to select a resource (such as ‘Entity’, ‘Process’, and so forth) before running the report. Otherwise, skip this task and leave the field blank.
Obtaining the reporting period ID prompt	Required only if a report prompts users to select a reporting period before running the report. Otherwise, skip this task and leave the field blank.