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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

Show/Hide prompt controls at runtime


A report shows sales quantity by product line and order method. Users need to filter on either product line or order method, any one at the time.

They would like a facility to select which prompt they want to filter on, and depending on the selection, prompt should appear.

Getting ready

Create a list report that shows product lines, order methods, and sales quantity. Create two options filters—one on product lines and the other on order methods.

How to do it...

  1. We will start by creating prompts for both the filters. For that, add a prompt page and add two value prompts. Use the prompt wizard to connect them to the parameters (product line and order method).

  2. Set the Hide Adornment property of both the prompts to Yes.

  3. Now drag an HTML item just before the product line prompt. Define it as:

    <Input type = radio Name = r1 title= "Click me to select Product Line..." Value = "PL" onclick= "radioSelect(this)">Product Line &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp...