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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

Code comments


All applications need some kind of code commenting mechanism for maintenance purposes. With programming languages it is easier; however with tools it can be a little tricky to put comments. In this recipe, we will see different options around putting comments within a report that will be invisible from users but accessible to the developers.

Getting ready

Open any existing report in Cognos Report Studio.

How to do it...

  1. For the first technique to put comments and notes within a report and hide it from users, go to Page Explorer and create a new page. Call it Comments.

  2. Open this new page and drag text items on it. Write all the comments about report here (description, functionality, notes, special cases, and so on).

  3. Now go to Condition Explorer and create a new Boolean variable. Define the expression as: 1=0. Name this variable as Render_Comments.

  4. Go to Comments page. Open the Render Variable property and connect it to Render_Comments variable.

  5. Run the report. Notice that Comments page...

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