Below is an example of an interactive cognos report i recently made.
you can see the interactivity in this short screencam : http://youtu.be/kEBiI1T6gow
To give the report an intuitive look and feel i both used Cognos functionalities together with javascript
On mouse-over on a row in the list at the left, the right panel is being updated with a report text.
Using Tabs (images with onclick-events) the user can switch between the viewing the content of laboratium reports and a workflow-form.
The workflow-form is submitted and refreshed content within the cognos report without the need to reprompt the page. For this i used the html-object-tag and embedded a small report giving back the result.
