This documentation assumes that the Windchill Business Reporting (WBR) solution (i.e. Cognos) has been successfully installed and configured. The Windchill instance name is referred to as <WindchillInstanceName>. The Cognos root URL is referred to as <WBRHomeURL>. Typically, if the WBR solution is installed on <WBRHost>, then the <WBRHomeURL> would be http://<WBRHost>/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi. It is assumed that you can login to <WBRHomeURL> and you have sufficient Cognos privileges to view Windchill Data Source objects and create reports.

Assume you have access rights to create a ReportTemplate business object <MyReportTemplate> in the Site context.

For WBR integration, you must also have access rights to update the reporting meta model.

This document does not contain details on how to construct ReportTemplate queries. See the Query Builder online tutorial and help for this information.