In this recipe we will focus on the Application bar, which is placed at the top of the IBM Cognos Business Insight window.
We will use the GO Sales
and GO Data Warehouse
samples shipped with IBM Cognos 10 BI. Ensure that IBM Cognos 10 BI Server is running and samples are set up properly.
To explore the Application bar, perform the following steps:
1. Open Cognos Connection and navigate to Public Folders | Samples | Models | Business Insight Samples.
2. Click on Revenue Data Dashboard to open it, as shown in the following screenshot:
3. We will explore the region circled in the preceding screenshot. This is the Application bar, which we briefly saw in Chapter 1, IBM Cognos 10 Dashboard Components.
4. The top-leftmost icon has menu items, which perform various tasks with the dashboard. Users can e-mail the link of the dashboard via mailbox using the Email Link... option, configured while setting up the IBM Cognos BI Server.
5. Click...