Parameterized URLs for Retrieving Burst Outputs - Part 2

I had long written about using Parametrized URLs for retrieving burst outputs (Parameterized URLs for Retrieving Burst Outputs). The solution proposed works when your burst Ids are unique across all report versions as was in my case. But what if the report generates the same set of burst outputs each time but with different data and you have report versioning property set to more than 1?

In this case, you need to modify the URL as shown below:

http://< server>?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=view&ui.object=/content/folder[@name='TEST']/reportView[@name='TEST REPORT']/reportVersion[last()]/output[contains(@burstKey,'123')]

The "last()" keyword over here ensures that Cognos looks through the latest report version to get the burst output with burst key 123.

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• Parameterized URLs for Retrieving Burst Outputs
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