How to avoid saving report output version in cognos? - cognos

I am working on cognos and user wants that the output version of report is not saved with report.
I looked for options and found below screen that has radio button making it impossible to uncheck. Setting value to zero means unlimited number of output.

I believe setting Duration to 0 days will stop output versions being saved.
If not, set it to 1 day and it will clear itself each night.

There is default setting in Cognos that can be accessed from report properties.
It allows us to set the default action when user click on report link in Cognos connection.
As in below screen, I have set default action to run the report that was earlier view most recent report.

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Crystal Reports: Creating object that can be selected in viewer and then records time and data stamp into a database or spreadsheet

Creating a report and need to log outside of the report when the last time the each object was selected and the user info from who selected it in the report viewer. Didn't know which command set to import to start trying to create this.
There are several options to log Crystal Reports use in a viewer, but you mention "objects" and "checkbox" and those are confusing.
Are you sure you are discussing Crystal Reports?
If you are, then please explain "objects" and "checkbox" and the full context in much more details.

VS2012 SSRS Cannot See Data Fields

I have a VS2012 SSRS report project with a shared data set. The data set is being created from a SQL Stored Proc. I used to use VS2008, and all of the available data fields would show below the data set, however, in VS2012 I cannot figure out how to get them to show. I've removed the data set, and added it back, I've completely removed the DataSource and added it back, nothing works.
The original report file was built in VS2008, and was converted to a VS2012 project. Not sure if this could be contributing to the problem.
Thank you.
Your screen shot shows the Solution Explorer pane. Data Fields never appeared in this pane, in any version of SSRS.
I suspect what you are looking for is the Report Data Pane, which you should find on the View menu
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627528(v=sql.120).aspx

Splunk - Finalize and delete current activity

I am using Splunk community edition for a monitoring dashboard.
I display a page of real time charts, I refresh the browser every now and then via a script.
This all works well however I am looking for a way to finalize and delete jobs running in the background as there is a limit as to how many live charts one can display in the community edition and when it refreshes the browser it seems to run to the limit after a while.
Thus how can I schedule the finalizing and deleting of the old jobs? (possibly a file I can remove from time to time)
I've overcame it by putting this at the top of my dashboard view (surrounded by XML tags):
< view autoCancelInterval="5" template="dashboard.html" >
The auto-cancel interval is set to 5 seconds. This means that when the search becomes inactive for 5 seconds or more, it will automatically cancel the search from running.

Cognos report get crazy during Drill-through to another report

I have a Cognos Express version 9.5 report with Drill-Through defined on a list column that open a second report passing it the coresponding data item value as parameter.
The second report open correctly showing data filtered as it should using the parameter received during drill-Through.
The problem is that the second report take forever to open and freeze my browser during various seconds... This is strange because this problem happen only when opening second report with drill-through and not when opening it directly filling in the optional parameter with a prompt...
Using browser debugger (f12) I noticed that http://my_server/p2pd/servlet/dispatch is called hundred of times before opening the second report and this is what is causing the browser to freeze...
Any idea what is happening?
Try using the 'Drill Through Assistant' to help with debugging your Drill-Through definition.
Here is a link to IBM site describing how to use the Drill through assistant.
Migrating my report to COGNOS 10.1.1 solved the problem...

Sharepoint 2010 "Failed to render field Created_x0020_Date, use default value instead"

Our company recently upgraded from Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 and with the upgrade it managed to break a filter on one of our sites.
The site is mostly just a dressed up document library with a custom view and has a date filter (by year, month). After the upgrade it randomly generates an error of "Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator." along with a correleation ID. The logs generated on the sharepoint server state "Failed to render field Created_x0020_Date, use default value instead".
The problem does not appear to be with the query or with the returned results until it actually tries to display the web part. Somehow the created date is not getting set? The strange thing is it works intermittently. The web part loads correctly maybe 5% of the time.
Any ideas what could have changed from 2007 to 2010?
Was the "Created_x0020_Date" column a calculated column? Was it modified in any way (such as the current date XSL hack)?
I've seen that sporadic error before and for my problem it was a time-out issue with a poor performing web part pulling from 3 different lists. We increased list throttling, and caching but it didn't help. But if it's just a standard view of the library with no custom XSL in it, then it isn't a code performance issue.
Can't you just create a new created column and copy the old data into the new column using Datasheet view in the browser?
We faced this same error both in a SharePoint 2010 and a SharePoint 2013 enviroment,
when executing an old report.
The cause was the farm XsltTransformTimeOut parameter.
We increased its value (default is 1 second) to 20 (our report lasted 10 seconds to run) and it got ok!
$farm = Get-SPFarm
$farm.XsltTransformTimeOut = 20
$farm.Update()
Hope it helps!
There whatsoever no difference between the Created Date column in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007.
The differences between the two are mainly new columns. After doing some digging I found this.
You can see the complete reference of the fields here
SharePoint 2010 Document Library Column Reference
SharePoint 2007 Document Library Column Reference
SharePoint 2007 2010 Document Library Column Difference
Now, since we know pretty much nothing of your setup and how this is built we are left to chance a bit. But assuming that guessing a bit is alright I'd say you are either missing the data in the 'Created Date' field which is possible since the field isn't required (check the documents I've linked to). Did you verify that all documents got this value set?
This field (Created Date) use the TimeCreated property to check when the document was created. So if this column isn't filled with data that usually should mean that your documents hasn't been transfered to your new installation but the reference to the document is still there.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfile.timecreated.aspx
Thats a bit of a chance but thats what I'd start somewhere around that.
Good luck.

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