Accessing Reports From Outside Managed Reporting

A Managed Reporting developer can make Managed Reporting Standard Reports available to self-service applications by leaving the Show as Report option unchecked on the publish dialog and specifying a file name for the launch page. The launch page is then created in the directory specified by the MR_BASE_HTML_DIR setting, which, by default, is set to install_dir/WebFOCUS/ibi_html/publish. You can override this default setting in the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

There are several WebFOCUS variables hidden on a Managed Reporting launch page. When a launch page is published outside of the Managed Reporting repository, an additional variable, IBIMR_drill=RUNNID (which stands for "run no ID"), is required to bypass the requirement for an MR_COOKIE. This setting allows the self-service user to only run the report specified. No other privileges are exposed.

Some customers do not need to make Managed Reporting content available to self-service applications and consider this feature a security exposure. You can prevent this kind of access by setting the MR_ANONYMOUS_RUN_ACCESS setting to NO. It is also recommended to set MR_AUTOSIGNON to YES. For more information about these settings, see Changing Managed Reporting Settings.

Configuring Single Sign-On Authentication to a Tagetik Application

Reference:

Tagetik Settings

Performance Management Framework (PMF) supports integration with the Tagetik 3.0 performance management application. Administrators can enable Managed Reporting users already logged in to Managed Reporting and/or the Business Intelligence Dashboard to log in to the Tagetik application without providing full authentication credentials. The Managed Reporting user must exist in the Tagetik environment. Otherwise, the Tagetik Sign-on page displays. The following URL call is used to access the Tagetik application from WebFOCUS:

http://servername:port/context_root/WFServlet?IBIWF_action=runTagetik

servername: Is the application server on which the WebFOCUS application is installed.
port: Is the application server port number on which the WebFOCUS application is installed.
context_root: Is the WebFOCUS web application alias.

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Reference: Tagetik Settings

The following settings are located in the Tagetik section of the MR Security Settings menu in the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

TAGETIK_HOST

Is the application server in which the Tagetik performance management application is installed. For example

http://servername:port/tagetikcpm

where:

servername: Is the DNS name where Tagetik is installed.
port: Is the application server port number on which the Tagetik application is installed.
tagetikcpm: Is the context root of the Tagetik application.

TAGETIK_PASS

Is the password shared between WebFOCUS and the Tagetik application. The password may be changed when installing Tagetik 3.0 and as such, this parameter value would need to be changed for WebFOCUS.