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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook

By : Ankit Garg
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook

By: Ankit Garg

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos 10 BI is the leader in the Gartner quadrant in terms of BI capabilities. There have been new features introduced with IBM Cognos 10 BI in terms of dashboards and BI. The book intends to highlight the latest and advanced dashboarding features introduced with IBM Cognos 10 BI. The book covers Business Insight and Business Insight Advanced in a comprehensive manner. It also covers best practices in terms of creating and distributing dashboards using IBM Cognos 10 BI, without which no BI solution would look presentable, usable and efficient. The book covers the new IBM Cognos 10 dashboarding capabilities in detail and a comprehensive manner. There whole content is divided in to step-by-step recipes, each of which covers a specific link in the whole chain of understanding and learning.Recipes are augmented with real steps and screenshots which nullify chances of error or misjudgement.These along with explanation, tips and information will help users to completely follow recipes and have a clear and concise understanding and will eventually enable them to use these in their own areas of interest.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Performing drill up and drill down


In this recipe we will learn how a user can drill up and drill down through hierarchies and levels.

Navigating from higher level of detail to lower level of detail is called drill down. In the same way navigating from lower level of detail to higher level of detail is called drill up.

For instance, year-quarter-month-day is a hierarchy with four levels. These levels are year, quarter, month, and day. A user viewing reporting figures for a year might be interested in navigating to individual quarters, which make up that year. Similarly, he/she may want to further drill down to the month level to see monthly level of detail.

In a similar manner a user currently viewing number at day level might be interested in drilling up to view monthly data and so on.

Getting ready

We will use the same setup as in the previous recipe and start with 5825-04-Sample1, which is already open in Cognos Business Insight Advanced.

Note

To create drill-up and drill-down reports, it...