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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

Drill-through from crosstab intersection


We have a crosstab report that shows sales quantity by month and order method. We need to create drill-through links from months and sales values.

Getting ready

Create two target reports for the drill-throughs. One takes only Month as parameter. The other takes Month and Order Method (Henceforth referred to as Drill-1 and Drill-2 reports respectively).

Create a simple crosstab report to be used as main report. Pull Time dimension | Month on rows, Order method | Order method on columns, and Sales fact | Quantity as measure.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Month item placed on crosstab rows. Click on the drill-through definition button from the toolbar.
  2. This opens the drill-through definitions dialog. Create a new definition. Select Drill-1 as Target Report. Map the month parameter with the month data item.

  3. Now click on the unlock button from toolbar to unlock the items.
  4. Select the text item from crosstab intersection. Hit the drill-through button again.

  5. Create...