Horizontal pagination
The horizontal pagination feature is made available only from IBM Cognos 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 versions of Cognos used to fit all report columns in one report width. Hence, in spite of selecting the 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 the pages and hence keep the size intact and readable.
Getting ready
We will use the report created in the previous recipe. In order to mimic the idea that the report can't fit in one page width, we will change the PDF Page Setup as shown in the following screenshot:
How to do it...
Our report will not fit on one page. To solve this we can change the properties of the list report. To do this, perform the following steps:
Open the report in Report Studio.
Select the List object using the Ancestor button.
From the Properties window, open the...
