You can log in to Report Studio by typing a URL in a web browser’s address field. After you type a URL and press Enter, the login page appears. What happens after you log in depends on which URL you use. In addition to the initial Report Studio page, you can open Report Studio with:
A specific report design
A specific template
A report design that accesses a specific data object
A report design that accesses a specific data object and a report template
In the example URLs in the following topics, special characters are represented by codes, as shown in Table 20‑2.
Table 20‑2 Codes for special characters in URLs
Character
Code
Colon (:)
%3a
Slash (/)
%2f
Period (.)
%2e
Space ( )
%20
How to log in
To access the Report Studio login page, use a URL like the one in the following example:
urup.domain.com:8700 is the fully qualified domain name of the computer on which iHub Visualization Platform client is installed and the port you use to access iHub Visualization Platform client.
iportal is the context root for iHub Visualization Platform client.
wr is the default context root for accessing Report Studio.
? indicates the beginning of a parameter that indicates where to access Report Studio files.
__vp=Default%20Volume specifies the default volume profile in which to work.
To log in directly to the Report Studio design environment, add userid and password parameters to the URL, as shown in the following example:
A specific report design