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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook

By : Ankit Garg
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook

By: Ankit Garg

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos 10 BI is the leader in the Gartner quadrant in terms of BI capabilities. There have been new features introduced with IBM Cognos 10 BI in terms of dashboards and BI. The book intends to highlight the latest and advanced dashboarding features introduced with IBM Cognos 10 BI. The book covers Business Insight and Business Insight Advanced in a comprehensive manner. It also covers best practices in terms of creating and distributing dashboards using IBM Cognos 10 BI, without which no BI solution would look presentable, usable and efficient. The book covers the new IBM Cognos 10 dashboarding capabilities in detail and a comprehensive manner. There whole content is divided in to step-by-step recipes, each of which covers a specific link in the whole chain of understanding and learning.Recipes are augmented with real steps and screenshots which nullify chances of error or misjudgement.These along with explanation, tips and information will help users to completely follow recipes and have a clear and concise understanding and will eventually enable them to use these in their own areas of interest.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Exploring the Content and Toolbox panes, and customizing the dashboard view


In the previous recipe we showed a vertical collapsible section, circled in red. Clicking on this section will open the Content and Toolbox panes, which we will see in detail now.

Getting ready

We will continue from where we left off in the previous section. We will click on the red-circled area on Recruitment Dashboard and analyze the Content pane first.

How to do it...

To explore the Content and Toolbox panes, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Open Recruitment Dashboard in the Cognos Business Insight interface.

  2. 2. Shown in the following screenshot are the Content and Toolbox tabs. These are currently in expanded mode. They can be collapsed to hide the tabs, by clicking on the button, which we had highlighted in the earlier recipe.

  3. 3. The Content pane can act as a navigator with which any other Cognos object can be viewed at any point in time. Any entry can be selected. Just right-click on that entry and click on the...