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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

Sharing the IBM Cognos Business Insight dashboard


In this recipe we will learn how we can create a portal page based on an existing dashboard created in IBM Cognos Business Insight.

This would help users to share dashboards that they created in IBM Cognos Business Insight, with other users by placing them on a portal page.

Getting ready

Make sure that IBM Cognos 10 BI server is started. The GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples should be set up and working. Log on to IBM Cognos Connection.

How to do it...

To share the IBM Cognos Business Insight dashboard, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Navigate to Public Folders | My Portal.

  2. 2. Click on the icon to create a new page. We want to put Sales by Year Dashboard shipped with samples on the portal page.

  3. 3. On the Specify a name and description - New page wizard page, specify Name as Sales Dashboard. Click on the Next button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. On the Set columns and layout - New page wizard page, keep the Number of columns...