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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

Defining page set


In a grouped report, it might be sensible to start a new group at a new page. In this recipe, we will see how to achieve it for the Product line grouping.

Getting ready

We will use the report generated in the previous recipe for this.

How to do it...

  1. Open the report in Report Studio and go to Page Explorer.

  2. From Insertable Objects, drag a new Page Set.

  3. Move the existing report page under this new Page Set (within Detail Pages).

  4. Now select the Page Set and from its Properties, set the Query to the one being used from report list (that is, Query1)

  5. Open the Grouping & Sorting dialog and drag Product line under Groups.

  6. Now run the report to test it.

How it works...

When we create Page Set, Cognos generates the report output as a bunch of pages rather than one continuous report. The pages are driven by the query and grouping that we defined in the Page Set properties.

Here, it will create a new page for every Product line. Hence, a new group will start from a new page. This applies...