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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

You're reading from   IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook Over 80 great recipes for taking control of Cognos 8 Report Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680349
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhishek Sanghani Abhishek Sanghani
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Report Authoring Basic Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Report Authoring 3. Tips and Tricks: JavaScripts 4. Tips and Tricks: Report Page 5. XML Editing 6. Writing Printable Reports 7. Working with Dimensional Models 8. Macros 9. Using Report Studio Better 10. Some More Useful Recipes 11. Best Practices Recommendations and References Index

Defining page set


In a grouped report, it might be sensible to start a new group at a new page. In this recipe, we will see how to achieve it for the Product line grouping.

Getting ready

We will use the report generated in the previous recipe for this.

How to do it...

  1. Open the report in Report Studio and go to Page Explorer.

  2. From Insertable Objects, drag a new Page Set.

  3. Move the existing report page under this new Page Set (within Detail Pages).

  4. Now select the Page Set and from its Properties, set the Query to the one being used from report list (that is, Query1)

  5. Open the Grouping & Sorting dialog and drag Product line under Groups.

  6. Now run the report to test it.

How it works...

When we create Page Set, Cognos generates the report output as a bunch of pages rather than one continuous report. The pages are driven by the query and grouping that we defined in the Page Set properties.

Here, it will create a new page for every Product line. Hence, a new group will start from a new page. This applies...

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