Monday, November 25, 2013

COGNOS: Add a Multimedia File to a Report

Place your Video ( .wmv or .avi  format)  in the following path

C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\c10\webcontent\samples\images\

Note: You must have Windows Media Player installed on your computer.


  1. In the Insertable Objects pane, on the Toolbox tab, drag the HTML Item object  to the report.
  2. Select the HTML Item.
  3. double-click the HTML Item 
  4. In the HTML dialog box, type the following:
    <OBJECT classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"> <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="/c10/webcontent/samples/images/yourVideo.wmv"/> </OBJECT>

Run the report and click on Video and enjoy...



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