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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

By : Abhishek Sanghani
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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

Manipulating Date Time control


There is a report that allows users to filter on Shipment Date Time using Date Time control. By default, Cognos selects current date and midnight as the date and time.

Report Studio allows you to override this with another static default value. However, business usually runs the report for the end of previous business day (5 PM).

In this recipe, we will learn how to change the default date and time for a Date Time control to the end of the previous business day.

Getting ready

Create a dummy report that shows sales quantity by shipment day. Define filter on shipment day.

How to do it...

  1. We will start by adding a date and time control to the report. For that add a new prompt page.

  2. From insertable objects, drag Date & Time Prompt on the prompt page. Connect it to the Shipment Day filter using appropriate parameter in the prompt wizard.

  3. Now select the prompt and set its Name property to shipmentDate.

  4. Now add an HTML item to the prompt footer after the Finish button...