Horizontal pagination
This feature is made available only from version 8.4. It is very useful for printing a very wide report and hence this recipe will show you how to use it.
Earlier Cognos used to fit all report columns in one report width. Hence, in spite of selecting Landscape orientation, some very wide reports had to be sized down, leaving them difficult to read. Now, we can choose to span the columns across pages and hence keep the size intact and readable.
Getting ready
We will use the report created in previous recipe for this. In order to mimic that the report can't fit in one page width; we will change the PDF Page Setup to the following:
How to do it...
Open the report in Report Studio.
Select the List object using ancestor button.
From properties window, open the pagination dialog.
Ensure that the Allow horizontal pagination option is checked.
Run the report in PDF format to test it.
How it works...
This is again a straight forward and menu-driven feature. When a report can't fit in one...