This section of the Readme contains late-breaking information related to the PowerPlay Windows component.
If you click the link for an IBM Cognos Series 7 Quick Tour and it fails to open, check the pop-up blocker setting in your Web browser. Some browsers, such as Firefox, block pop-up windows by default. For the tours to launch correctly from their links, you must disable pop-up blockers.
If reports are created in PowerPlay for Windows that use embedded HTML scripts in the report titles, when these reports are published to PowerPlay Enterprise Server or Upfront and opened in PowerPlay Web Explorer, the HTML scripts may be converted to standard text.
This is due to a new enterprise deployment security feature administered in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration.
If your PowerPlay Web Explorer report titles contain HTML scripts as standard text, we recommend that you do one of the following:
If you type a title with a first line that is longer than the width of your Report Title window, and you insert a carriage return to start the next line, PowerPlay’s automatic wrap feature may insert an extra blank line between your first and second title lines when you click OK.
To avoid this unwanted activation of the automatic wrap feature, press the Enter key before the first line of your title reaches the end of the Report Title window.
You cannot overwrite an existing NewsItem from PowerPlay Windows, if the report was originally published to the IBM Cognos Web portal (Upfront) from the PowerPlay Enterprise Server Administration tool. Instead, you must use PowerPlay Web Explorer to perform this task.
In some chart elements, bi-directional Hebrew text may be displayed in a "logical" order rather than the expected "visual" order.
For more information, go to http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/bidi/
The AddtoReport method does not allow you to specify at which level the row or column will be added. A new method, AddToReportAtSpecificNestingLevel, allows you to specify the desired nesting level.
For more information, see the AddToReporAtSpecificNestingLevel topic in the Documentation Updates.
The number of advanced subsets in a report is limited to 256. Once there are 256 advanced subsets in a report, you are unable to add additional subsets. The Advanced Subset dialog box is still available, however, if you save additional subsets they are not added to the report.
After a cube update, when you open an existing report that includes a calculation based on members of a subset, items that were not in the earlier version of the cube are not included in the calculation. This can occur when the calculation is created in a report where zero suppression is applied. The calculation will include only items that are present in the report. After a cube update, the calculation will not dynamically update to include new items.
If the intention is to create a true sub-set calculation, which will dynamically update, before you create a calculation based on members of a subset, ensure that zero suppression is not activated. Apply zero suppression after you create the calculation.