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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

Inserting a crosstab widget


In this recipe we will insert a crosstab widget in our dashboard—5825-04-Sample1.

Getting ready

We will use the same setup as in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To insert a crosstab widget, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. In this recipe we will insert a crosstab showing Forecast revenue with respect to Products and Time in the bottom-right quadrant.

  2. 2. Drag a Crosstab object denoted by from the Toolbox tab and drop it onto the bottom-right quadrant of the dashboard.

  3. 3. Drag Forecast revenue, Products, and Time from the metadata package under the Source tab and drop them to the center, top, and left-hand side area of the crosstab respectively.

  4. 4. Save the resulting dashboard, which now looks like the following screenshot:

  5. 5. Save the dashboard and keep it open for the next recipe.

How it works...

In this recipe we have inserted a crosstab in our dashboard. In the next recipe we will add more widgets to the dashboard and learn more about formatting features.

In...