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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

Add data level security using CSVIdentityMap macro


A report shows the employee names by region and country. We need to implement data security in this report such that a user can see the records only for the country he belongs to. There are already User Groups defined on the Cognos server (in the directory) and users are made members of appropriate groups.

For this sample, I have added my user account to a user group called 'Spain'.

Getting ready

Open a new list report with GO Data Warehouse (Query) as the package.

How to do it...

  1. Drag the appropriate columns (Region, Country, and Employee name) on to the report from Employee by Region query subject.

  2. Go to Query Explorer and drag a new detail filter.

  3. Define the filter as: [Country] in (#CSVIdentityNameList(',')#)

  4. Run the report to test it. You will notice that a user can see only the rows of the country/countries of which he is a member.

How it works...

Here we are using a macro function called CSVIdentityNameList. This function returns a list of...