Monday, December 6, 2010

Making the Size of Select & Search Prompt Dynamic

By default, The width of Select & Search prompt is fixed and therefore wide text will cut off.....

Note: The following Technique is only Applicable for Cognos 8.4  Fix Pack 2 and Higher..

STEPS:

1) Locate for a File properties.js   in the location ...c8\webcontent\prompting (on the machine where you installed cognos 8 gateway)
2) Take a back of  it ( This backup is useful to restore the file properties.js if any thing goes wrong)
3) Open the file with any Text editor and search for the line..
    "SYSTEMPROPERTY_CSEARCH_AUTO_RESIZE_RESULT_LIST=FALSE"
4)  Replace FALSE with TRUE

5) Save the file
6) Launch the cognos and check the prompt you can see as follows..




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