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 following dialog box:
Run the report to test it. In most cases, the report will run fine.
How it works...
The newer versions of Cognos Report Studio are made backwards compatible when it comes to the XML specification of the report. That means we can...
