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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

Container size and rows per page


In this recipe, we will examine options around data container size and rows per page.

Getting ready

Create a simple list report with Product attribute's and sales Quantity as columns.

Define grouping and aggregation as shown previously.

How to do it...

  1. On the report page, click on any column from the list.

  2. Using ancestor button, select whole list in the Properties tab.

  3. Set Rows Per Page to 50.

  4. Now open the Size & Overflow property. Set the width of list to 100%.

  5. Run the report in HTML and PDF formats to test it.

  6. Save the report for use in the next recipe.

How it works...

You will notice in the output that the HTML report shows 50 rows per page. There is a scrollbar on the right for browsing the report page. Whereas in PDF, it only shows a page-full of rows per page.

In practice, the two most frequently used output formats by the users are HTML and PDF. HTML is great for interactivity and speed, whereas PDF is useful for printing.

When reports are run in HTML format...