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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

By : Abhishek Sanghani
Book Image

IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

By: Abhishek Sanghani

Overview of this book

Cognos Report Studio is widely used for creating and managing business reports in medium to large companies. It is simple enough for any business analyst, power user, or developer to pick up and start developing basic reports. However, when it comes to developing more sophisticated, fully functional business reports for wider audiences, report authors will need guidance. This book helps you understand and use all the features provided by Report Studio to generate impressive deliverables. It will take you from being a beginner to a professional report author. It bridges the gap between basic training provided by manuals or trainers and the practical techniques learned over years of practice. This book covers all the basic and advanced features of Report Authoring. It begins by bringing readers on the same platform and introducing the fundamental features useful across any level of reporting. Then it ascends to advanced techniques and tricks to overcome Studio limitations.Develop excellent reports using dimensional data sources by following best practices that development work requires in Report Studio. You will also learn about editing the report outside the Studio by directly editing the XML specifications. Provide richness to the user interface by adding JavaScript and HTML tags. The main focus is on the practical use of various powerful features that Report Studio has to offer to suit your business requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Overriding crosstab intersection drill-through definition


Let us consider an extension of the last recipe. Let us say the users want to see a Discontinuous crosstab as main report. Instead of just Order methods on column, we need to display Order methods and Product lines as columns.

The rows display Month. Measure is sales quantity.

The drill-through from the intersection has to go to the appropriate report depending on whether the column is Product line or Order method.

Getting ready

Create a new drill-through target that accepts Month and Product line as parameters. We will call it as Drill-3 from now on.

For the main report, we will use the same crosstab report as in the last recipe.

How to do it...

  1. We will start by creating the discontinuous crosstab on the main report. We already have Order method on columns. Drag Product line also on the crosstab, as column. The report will look like this.

  2. Now select the intersection cells under the product line column.

  3. From its Properties, set Define contents...