Cognos Reports - No Prompt Page

Question

I am new to Cognos reports, so bear with me.

I have a report that has two parameters (call them x and y). I have a prompt page for x and y. The user can supply those values and click finish to be taken to the report. I am looking for a way to only show that prompt page if those parameters are not passed in the url string. If those parameters are set, I want to go directly to the report. I have tried some js to automatically act as though the finish button has been called, but I am just getting cognos errors. Any suggestions as to how I can accomplish this? The prompt page is having the prompt controls set to the values for x and y in the url.

js -

<script type="text/javascript">
promptAction('finish');
</script>

cognos error -

The secondary request failed. The requested session does not exist and the secondary request does not contain enough information to recreate the session. Contact your Administrator.

Answer 1

You need to append &run.prompt=false to your URL string to skip the prompt page. This only works if you supply all the prompts - it will error if even one is missing.