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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

Adding a cascaded prompt


Business owners want to see sales made by employees. They also want the facility to limit the report to certain region, country, or employee.

When they select a region, they would like the country pick-list to automatically reduce to the countries falling in that region. Similarly, the employee pick-list should also reduce when they pick a country.

Getting ready

Create a simple list report with Employee name (from Employee by region query subject) and Quantity (from Sales fact).

Define appropriate grouping and sorting for Employee name and ensure that aggregations for Quantity are correctly set.

How to do it...

  1. We will start by creating detailed filters on the report query. Select the list report and open the filters dialog by clicking the Filters button.

  2. Add three detailed filters as follows:

    1. [Employee name]=?Employee?

    2. [Sales (query)].[Employee by region].[Country]=?Country?

    3. [Sales (query)].[Employee by region].[Region]=?Region?

  3. Define all filters as Optional.

  4. Now create...