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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

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We have seen some recipes in this book where we displayed images on the report (for example, Traffic Signal one). This recipe will show a best practice related to that.

Getting ready

We will use the report created for last recipe for this one.

How to do it...

  1. Open the report in Cognos Report Studio. From Insertable Objects | Source pane, drag the Product image on list as a new column.

  2. Run the report to test it.

    1. It is possible that the images are not displayed.

    2. In that case, log on to the server and make sure the GO Sales sample images are located in the {installation folder}\webcontent\samples\images folder. If not, put them there from the sample provided with this book.

    3. After putting the images in the correct folder, run the report and they should display correctly.

  3. Now go back to Cognos Report Studio. Double-click on the Product image column. This will open the data expression window.

  4. Browse the model tree from left to locate Product image column. Now click on the Select...