Achieving minimum column width
A report shows sales quantity by product line and order method. The order methods are displayed as columns. When the crosstab is wider than the IE window, Cognos automatically shrinks the column width instead of showing the horizontal scrollbar.
Hence, you will notice that some columns are wider and some are narrower, depending on the data. For example, the Fax and Mail columns in the following screenshot are narrower than the Telephone column.
In this recipe, we will see a technique to achieve minimum column width for columns. When the crosstab is wider than the page width, the columns will not shrink more than a certain limit and a horizontal scroll bar will be provided automatically.
Getting ready
Create a crosstab report with product line on rows, order method on columns, and sales quantity as intersection.
Copy the invisible.gif supplied with this book to the Cognos server under {Cognos Installation}\webcontent\samples\images folder.
How to do it...
- Unlock the...
