Type

The type of entry.

Owner

The owner of the entry. By default, the owner is the person who created the entry. When the owner no longer exists in the namespace, or is from a different namespace than the current user, the owner shows as Unknown.

If you have Set policy permissions, click Make me the owner to become the owner of the entry.

Contact

The person responsible for the entry. Click Set the contact and then click Select the contact to set the contact for the entry or click Enter an email address to enter the contact’s email address.

Location

The location of the entry in the portal and its ID. Click View the search path, ID and URL to view the fully qualified location and the ID of the entry in the content store.

Entries are assigned a unique identification (ID) number. For more information, see Organizing Entries.

Created

The date the entry was created.

Modified

The most recent date that the entry was modified.

Icon

The icon for the entry. Click Edit to specify an alternative icon. For more information, see Specify an Alternative Icon for an Entry

Disable this entry

When selected, users that do not have write permissions for this entry cannot access it. The entry is no longer visible in the portal.

If an entry is disabled and you have write access to it, the disabled icon appears next to the entry.

Hide this entry

Select this property to hide reports, packages, pages, folders, jobs, and other entries. Hide an entry to prevent it from unnecessary use, or to organize your view. The hidden entry is still accessible to other entries. For example, a hidden report is accessible as a drill-through target.

A hidden entry remains visible, but its icon is faded. If you clear the Show hidden entries check box in my area , My Preferences, the entry disappears from your view.

You must have access to the Hide Entries capability granted by your administrator to see this property.

Language

A list of languages that are available for the entry name, screen tip, and description according to the configuration set up by your administrator.

Click Remove values for this language to remove the entry name, screen tip, and description for a specified language.

Name

The name of the entry for the selected language.

Screen tip

An optional description of the entry. The screen tip appears when you pause your pointer over the icon for the entry in the portal. Up to 100 characters can be used for a screen tip.

Description

An optional description of the entry. It appears in the portal when you set your preferences to use the details view.

Details view appears only in Public Folders and My Folders.

Run history

The number of occurrences or period of time to retain run histories for the entry.

Report output versions

The number of occurrences or period of time to keep report outputs.

Setting this value to zero (0) saves an unlimited number of versions.

Package

The package that is associated with the entry. If the source package was moved or deleted, the text reads "Unavailable."

Click Link to a package to link the entry to a different package. For more information, see Select a Link for an Entry.

URL

A URL to either a file or Web site address. For more information, see Create a URL.

This field is visible only if you have read permissions for the entry. If you have write permissions without read permissions, this property is not visible.

Source report

A path to the source entry for a report view. If the source entry was moved or deleted, the text reads "Unavailable."

Click Report Properties to view the properties of the source report. Click Link to a report to link the entry to a different package. For more information, see Select a Link for an Entry.

Source agent

A path to the source entry for an agent view. If the source entry was moved or deleted, the text reads "Unavailable."

Click Agent Properties to view the properties of the source report. Click Link to an agent to link the entry to a different package. For more information, see Select a Link for an Entry.

Shortcut to

A path to the entry that the shortcut points to. If the referred entry no longer exists, the text reads "Source entry not found."

Click Source Properties to view the properties of the source entry.

Advanced routing

A list of keywords used to direct requests by package, user group, or user role to dispatchers in identified server groups.

Click Set to add routing keywords for packages, user roles, or user groups. The rules used to direct the requests are part of IBM Cognos Administration.

Gateway

The location of the web server where the originating IBM Cognos product resides. Applies only to Series 7 PowerPlay reports.

Override the access permissions

Whether to replace the permissions that are inherited from the parent entry.

Access permissions (Name, Type, Permissions)

The permissions that are set for the entry. You can grant or deny read, write, execute, set policy, and traverse permissions. For more information, see Access Permissions.

Click Add to add more names to the list. Click Delete to delete names from the list.

Delete the access permissions of all child entries

Whether to remove the existing access permissions for all child entries so that they will use the access permissions for this entry.

Default action

The default action when the report is run.

Report options: Override the default values

Whether to override default run options for the report. When selected, the values that you can override appear.

Format

The default format, orientation, and paper size to use when the report runs. Appears only if Override the default values is selected.

Language

The default language to use for the report data when the report runs. Appears only if Override the default values is selected.

Prompt values

The values that are used to filter data when a report is run.

Run as the owner

Whether to use the owner credentials when the report is run.

HTML options: Open in design mode

Whether to open an HTML-format Series 7 PowerPlay report in design mode.

Number of rows per Web page in HTML reports

The number of rows you want to appear per Web page in HTML reports

Enable selection-based interactivity in HTML reports

Whether to enable the following in HTML reports that are viewed in Cognos Viewer: drill up and drill down, drill through, Cognos Search, watch rules, and agent notification. For more information, see

Note that to have watch rules evaluated in saved report output, you must select the Enable enhanced user features in saved output versions check box.

Enable alerts about new versions

Whether to allow report consumers to receive alerts about new versions of a saved report. If this check box is cleared, you are prompted whether to remove all users from the alert list.

Enable enhanced user features in saved output versions

Whether to create additional output formats so that watch rules can be evaluated and saved output versions can be imported into IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office.

Note that to enable watch rules, you must select the Enable selection-based interactivity in HTML reports check box.

Enable comments in saved output versions

Whether to allow users to add comments to saved reports. For more information, see Comments in Saved Reports.

Refresh the report cache

Create new cache data if none is available, when the report runs interactively.

Cache duration

The number of days or months before the report cache data expires. To enable the cache duration, select the Refresh the report cache check box.

Steps

A list of steps in the job.

Submission of steps

Whether to run job tasks all at once or in sequence.

Defaults for all steps

Set default values at the job level. Click Set, then specify the defaults for all steps of the job. If no defaults are set, the defaults for the individual steps are used.

Run history details level

Click All to save the complete history details for the job steps when the run activity completes successfully. The complete history details for the job steps includes Name, Request time, Start time, Completion time, Status.

Click Limited to save limited run history details for the job. The limited run history details include the job start time, completion time, status and messages.

If the job run fails, the complete history details are saved. The default is All.

The Run history details level setting for the job overrides the settings of the job steps.

Tasks

A list of tasks in the agent.

Default action

The default action when the agent is run.

Prompt values

The values that are used to filter data when an agent is run .

Run as the owner

Whether to use the owner credentials when the agent is run.

Alert list

Whether to allow users to add themselves to the alert list for an agent.

Number of columns

The number of columns used to organize the content of a page.

Up to three columns can be used.

Content

Type of content added to a page.

Use to add and remove portlets, distribute the portlets between the columns, change the order of columns and specify their width.

Language

The language in which the page title and instructions can be typed. It should match the product language.

Title

The page title. You can format the title by changing the font and character style, and the text alignment. To return to the default browser settings, click Return to default. To modify the default settings, click Custom.

You can hide the title.

Instructions

Additional information about the page. You can format the text of instructions by changing the font and character style, and the text alignment. To return to the default browser settings, click Return to default. To modify the default settings, click Custom.

You can hide the instructions.

Portlet style

The way a portlet appears on a page. To avoid cluttering the page, you can hide the portlet borders, title bars, and the edit button on the title bar.

Disable the rule

Whether to disable the watch rule. When disabled, the watch rule is not applied when report output is generated.

Send an alert when the report reportname contains:

The name of the report and the rule defined for the watch rule.

To edit the definition, click the existing filter condition, such as > (greater than) and in the list that appears, click a different condition. Specify a different value in the box.

For the selected context

The objects in the report to which the rule applies.

Alert type

The type of alert you receive when the rule is satisfied. You can be alerted by email or news item.