The Windchill Business Reporting (WBR) solution uses Windchill and Cognos objects in the system. Often times these objects are developed in another system such as a development system and then moved to another system where they are used in production. This document describes how these Reporting objects are loaded into a system.

For Windchill business objects, the standard Windchill Data Loading mechanism is used. These tools are based on describing objects and their attributes in XML files. The loading is accomplished by instantiating the business objects, populating the attributes specified in the XML files, and using standard Windchill create APIs.

For Cognos report objects, standard Cognos SOAP APIs are used. Cognos report attributes are specified in a Java properties file and the report’s definition is specified in an associated XML file. These files are processed and the data is passed to a Cognos SOAP API for creating reports.