The PowerPlay Web Table of Contents lists the cubes and reports that you can open. When you click a report, identified by the report icon 
, PowerPlay Web Viewer opens and shows a report that was created in another PowerPlay client application. You can print the report and you can also open it in PowerPlay Web Explorer if you want to explore the report further. When you click a cube, identified by the cube icon 
, PowerPlay Web Explorer opens; you can explore the data by choosing dimensions, performing calculations, and other activities.
Reports and cubes can also be organized into folders in the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents by your administrator.
If your administrator has made the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents available to you, you access it from your Web browser. If you are opening reports from your Cognos portal (either Upfront or Cognos Connection), you will have a different URL and you will not see the PowerPlay Web Table of Contents. For more information about opening items from Upfront, see the Upfront online help. For information about Cognos ReportNet, see the Cognos ReportNet User Guide.
Reports you open are created by report authors using another PowerPlay client application. The reports can be published to your Cognos portal and added to PowerPlay Enterprise Server by your administrator.
in PDF format. If the report author has defined prompts for the report, the Modify Reports page opens so you can select the information you want to see in the report.A cube is a multidimensional data source that contains measures (data) organized into dimensions. Cubes are created by your administrator and added to PowerPlay Enterprise Server or your Cognos portal.
and shows the first two dimensions as the rows and columns.You can specify regional settings, such as a time zone and currency, and select languages if your PowerPlay administrator has enabled these settings.
You can format the numeric values of your query results using the settings of a specific country or region. For example, some regions of Europe use a period (.) as the thousands separator. The Locale box contains many different regions. If the region you want is not in the list, your PowerPlay administrator can add it for you. The availability of this feature and the individual regions shown in the Locale box are controlled by your PowerPlay administrator.
Note: PowerPlay Web uses a data format configuration file named cerlocale.xml. For more information, see Default Data Formats.
to go to the Table of Contents page. If you opened a report from Upfront, contact your administrator.You can select the language to use in the PowerPlay Web interface. This selection overrides the language specified in your Web browser. When you change your selection, all elements change, including the help.
For information about setting language preferences, see the help for your Web browser.
to go to the Table of Contents page. If you opened a report from Upfront, contact your administrator.Data formats depend on the locale configuration settings for your Cognos Series 7 Version 3 product. By default, Cognos Series 7 Version 3 server products and Cognos Impromptu use a data format configuration file named cerlocale.xml. Cognos Architect, Cognos Visualizer, Cognos PowerPlay for Windows, and Cognos Transformer use Windows Regional Settings for locale settings and data format information. However, these products can also be configured to use the data format configuration file.
Some default formats in the cerlocale.xml file are different from the defaults in previous Series 7 releases. You may notice minor changes to some data formats when you open a report that was created using a previous version of your Cognos product. Depending on the nature of the change, you may need to modify the format of the report data item and re-save the report, or modify the setting in the data format configuration file. For example, you may need to modify the report column widths or font sizes.
The following are some examples of changes to data formats.
If your data formats changed and you prefer the data formats from the previous release, you can run an upgrade tool to copy the data format information from the locale.tab file in previous releases to the cerlocale.xml file. If you want to use only some data format information from a previous release, you must edit the cerlocale.xml file to make the changes.
For information about managing data formats, copying data format information, or editing the data format configuration file, see the Configuration Manager User Guide, or contact your administrator.