If you need to work in Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor, but you are temporarily unable to connect to a network, you can work offline if you have sufficient rights. For example, you can view and edit your plan while travelling.
Important: Ensure that you bring your data online as soon as possible to prevent data loss in the event of administration changes, and to ensure accurate data readings.
Open the e.List item while online.
If you want to edit or annotate offline and you are not
the current editor, click Take Ownership .
From the File menu, click Work Offline. This disconnects the server from this session while leaving the session open.
In the offline browser, when you click Save, it saves to the offline store and does not connect to the server. Any annotations become read-only and data changes color to indicate that it was saved.