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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

Worksheet name in Excel output


A report has three list report objects (Sales by products, Sales by region, Sales by order method). Users prefer to access it in Excel format.

They want the three reports to be populated on three different sheets and each sheet should be named appropriately.

Getting ready

Create a report with three list report objects and pull appropriate columns in each.

How to do it...

  1. Open Page Explorer and add two new Page objects.

  2. Select each of them and change their name from properties to as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Now cut the list objects from the first page and paste in the appropriate report page.

  4. Run the report in Excel to test it.

    As you can see, Cognos produces three sheets with the names same as what we defined for 'Page name' (with an auto-incrementing number appended). Each sheet will show the list object we placed in corresponding page.

How it works...

When we generate the report in Excel format, the name of worksheet matches the name of page in CRS. A number...