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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

Grab them all practice


This recipe will tell you about something which is good practice. But I have put it under 'Using Report Studio Better' for two reasons. One—it builds upon the idea learnt in previous recipe. Two—it does help you use Report Studio better.

The last recipe showed you how to apply style to selected list columns. Here we will see the recommended way to apply same style to all the objects (List Column Titles in this case).

Getting ready

We will continue working on the report that we modified in the last recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Say we want to apply the following style to all the list column titles.

    Font: 12 Pt

    Background Color: Silver

    Border: 1pt Solid all sides

    Then we have two options. First apply this style to one column title. Say Product line code.

  2. Now do the same Pick-up Style and Apply Style to all column titles as learnt in the previous recipe.

  3. Run the report to test it and you will see that it works.

  4. However, if you drag a few more columns on the list, you will see that the...