Download a Microsoft
Office Document
You can download a Microsoft Office document from Cognos
Connection if it was published in Cognos 8 using Cognos
8 Go! Office or Cognos BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel ®. For more information,
see the Cognos 8 Go! Office User Guide and
the Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel ® User
Guide.
You can download documents created in Microsoft Office Excel,
Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Microsoft Office Word. The default
action for any Microsoft Office document is to download it.
You must have read and traverse permissions to access
Microsoft Office documents in Cognos Connection.
For more information, see Secured Functions and Features.
Steps
In Cognos Connection, locate the document that you want
to open.
Click more on the actions toolbar
to the right of the document that you want to download.
The Cognos Connection actions page opens.
Download the Microsoft Office document:
For a Microsoft Office workbook, click
the View most recent document in Excel object 
.
For a Microsoft Office presentation, click the View
most recent document in PowerPoint object 
.
For a Microsoft Office word document, click the View
most recent document in Word object 
.
For a Microsoft Office document of unknown type, click the View
most recent document object 
.
The File Download dialog box appears.
Click Open or Save and
follow the prompts that appear.
When you open the document, it opens in the application that
was used to create it.
You can now perform the same actions that you would perform
for any Microsoft Office document of the selected type.
