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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 Application bar — Cognos-specific options


In this recipe we will learn more about the Application bar in terms of Cognos-specific options. We will proceed directly from where we left off in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

We will focus on the Application bar, circled in red, as shown in the previous recipe. It is assumed that we already have Recruitment Report at the location—Public Folders | Samples | Models | Interactive Samples opened in front of us, in Cognos Business Insight Advanced tool. To explore the Cognos-specific options of the Application bar, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. We can execute a dashboard in various formats by clicking on the icon:

  2. 2. Data on the dashboard can be filtered using one of the options provided under the icon. The user needs to select an object on the dashboard and click on the Filter icon to apply a filter in different possible ways, as shown in the following screenshot.

    Note

    Filters are used to limit the amount of data appearing...