Creating templates
In all organizations, the reporting suite is required to follow the standard formatting. Similar to other tools and technologies, IBM Cognos Report Studio also allows you to create and use templates in order to maintain the standards, reduce cosmetic errors, and save time.
Getting ready
We will amend the report created in the previous recipe in this recipe.
How to do it...
We have already defined the formatting for crosstab members and hyperlinks. To create a template, you want to go ahead and define the standard report header and footer.
You might want to put the company logo in the header. To do this, perform the following steps:
From the menu, go to File | Convert to Template.
Notice that the Model/Source pane becomes empty and all data items are removed from the report.
From the menu, go to File | Save As. Give the filename Template. Notice that the icon created for this is different than other reports.
Now we will prepare the XML specification of this template to be inserted...
