Saturday, February 28, 2009

Content Manager did not return an object for the requested search path COGNOS 8.3



This issue usually comes up when it is a drill through or a drill down and there are couple of issues why we could get this error:

1. Firstly, check the path of the report ones. Mainly check the spaces or change in name of the report. Sometimes what happens is that; when some one uses a report they might save it with a different name and delete the actual one.

2. The other thing is to check the package. It might happen that we develop the report in one package and without deploying we copy / paste the report in a different package. Later when we delete the actual package the Link to the second level report is lost.

This happens to me a lot as we develop reports in one package and test it in a different one and I don't get enough time to create and deploy the package every time.

3. The other issue is a very very rare case but has happened to me once, when we deployed the package; COGNOS did not convert all the reports properly and the paths in the reports did not get updated.