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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

Changing title of the dropdown box


In the previous example, the first line of value prompt shows the data item name, that is, Month key (Shipment date).

The business wants to change this to a more generic and user-friendly text.

Getting ready

We will use the report generated in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. We need to add a line to the JavaScript from the previous recipe to change the text of first option (index 0). For that, open the prompt page of the report created in the previous recipe.

  2. Double-click on the HTML item in the prompt footer.

  3. Replace the code with the following:

    <script>
    var theSpan = document.getElementById("A1");
    var a = theSpan.getElementsByTagName("select"); 
    for( var i = a.length-1; i >= 0; i-- )  
    { var prompts = a[i];
    if( prompts.id.match(/PRMT_SV_/))
     { 	prompts.selectedIndex = 3;
       prompts.options[0].text = 'Choose Shipment Month'; /* This is the new line added to script */
     }
    canSubmitPrompt();
    }
    </script>
  4. Run the report to test it.

How it works....