.When building URLs, you need to know the search paths of the objects you want to access using the URLs.
If you want to access an IBM Cognos Connection page,
you can use its search paths or its ID. Search paths define the
fully qualified location of the entry in the content store and are
not installation-specific. IDs are installation-specific. For ease
of use, we recommend that you access the page using search paths .
When using the cognosLaunch method, you specify the object's search path after the "ui.object" parameter.
If you are using the parameterized URL method, specify the object's search path using the following m_page parameter format, where search path is the search path of the page object:
&m_page=path:[[search path]]
For example,
m_page=path:/content/folder[@name='Public Pages']/pagelet[@name='EP portlet Demo'
Tip: To find the page search path and ID in IBM Cognos Connection, navigate to the folder that contains the page and click the page properties button. On the General tab, click View the search path, ID and URL.
Instead of the search path, you can also specify the object's page ID using the following cognosLaunch parameters:
"ui.object","storeID('storeID')If you are using the parameterized URL method ,
you can specify the object's page ID using the following m_page parameter
format, where page ID is the object's page ID:
m_page=[page ID]
The ID appears as an unseparated series of characters. For example,
i80E9B692820A4F91B8655D4E84F292AF
To find the IDs, follow the instructions in Using Search Paths and Page IDs.
References to deployment objects are based on search paths, not IDs. For a specific IBM Cognos Connection page, the object's page ID remains valid until the application's deployment mechanism transfers the original object to another IBM Cognos 8 server. In the destination environment, all IDs are different. In such an event, you must map all ID references to the new IDs on the system.
