Cognos Connection - Weill Medical College - Cornell University

Setting and Viewing the Cognos Home Page
Home – Select this icon or the downward pointing arrow to invoke the drop down list with „Home‟ or „Set
View as Home‟ as a selection choice.
Clicking „Home‟ will navigate back to your Cognos homepage.
Clicking „Set View as Home‟ will set whichever page you are currently viewing to become your new
home page.
� TIP: Any folder level within the Public Folder or My Folder tab can be set as a Cognos
homepage.
Set up My Area - Set Preferences
Preference and activity settings where personal activities can be monitored within Cognos.
My Watch Items – Any report that is added to your watch list will be displayed on the Alerts tab screen. An
email notification will be sent to you when new versions of reports that have been added to the watch list
become available.
� TIP: To access watched files, locate the file in the appropriate folder in Cognos Connection.
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Remove me from the alert list - By clicking the check box beside a watched report and clicking the ,
the report will no longer appear on your watch list.
Note: Click to return to the previous page. When the My Area icon is selected again, only the two
other choices (My Preferences, My Activities and Schedules) are displayed. This is consistent for the “My
Preferences” or “My Activities and Schedules” sections.
Weill Cornell Medical College Physician Organization Information Systems Cognos 8 – Cognos Connection
Updated - August 2009 Page 8