Hiding Header and Toolbar in Cognos 10 Viewer

By default the Cognos Header and toolbar will be visible in Cognos Report Viewer. Sometimes users of Cognos reports may request to hide header and toolbar in the Cognos viewer. If the report is called from an external application, user might want to hide the Cognos header and toolbar in that application.

In Report Viewer the Cognos Header and toolbar can be hidden from users by calling the report through a URL and passing the correct parameters.  We can hide only the Header, only the Toolbar or both. This article demonstrates how to hide Header and toolbar.

Hiding Header

To hide header just embed the following in the URL:

&cv.header=false

Following URL will hide the Cognos Viewer Header:

http://PC-SUMEET:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object =%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Test_Sum%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%273D_Chart %27%5d&ui.name=3D_Chart&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true&cv.header=false

 Hiding Toolbar

To hide toolbar just embed the following in the URL:

&cv.toolbar=false

For example, if the report URL is

http://PC-SUMEET:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object =%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Test_Sum%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%273D_Ch art%27%5d&ui.name=3D_Chart&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true

Following URL will hide the Cognos Viewer Toolbar:

http://PC-SUMEET:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object =%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Test_Sum%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%273D_Chart %27%5d&ui.name=3D_Chart&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true&cv.toolbar=false

Hiding Header and Toolbar

To hide both header and toolbar use the following URL:

http://PC-SUMEET:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object =%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Test_Sum%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%273D_Chart %27%5d&ui.name=3D_Chart&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=true&cv.header=false&cv.toolbar=false