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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

New feature for zero suppression


We have already seen one way of suppressing zero rows in the "Filtering rows or columns" recipe. This recipe will show you the new feature introduced in version 8.4 for the same.

Getting ready

We will use the same 'GO Sales SSAS cube' package for this.

How to do it...

  1. Create a simple list report with Organization Code2 on rows, and Current Year and Current Month on columns.

  2. Now select anything on the crosstab and using Ancestor button from Properties tab, select the crosstab.

  3. Open its Suppression property.

  4. Select the Rows only option for Suppression and keep the appropriate checkboxes checked.

  5. Run the report to test it.

How it works...

When you run the report, you will see that only those organization codes appear on the rows which have some data. This effect is same as the filtering we had achieved by using the calculated member set.

I would say this is one of the most useful feature introduced in version 8.4. You can choose to suppress only rows, only columns, both...