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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

Overriding crosstab intersection drill-through definition


Let us consider an extension of the last recipe. Let us say the users want to see a Discontinuous crosstab as main report. Instead of just Order methods on column, we need to display Order methods and Product lines as columns.

The rows display Month. Measure is sales quantity.

The drill-through from the intersection has to go to the appropriate report depending on whether the column is Product line or Order method.

Getting ready

Create a new drill-through target that accepts Month and Product line as parameters. We will call it as Drill-3 from now on.

For the main report, we will use the same crosstab report as in the last recipe.

How to do it...

  1. We will start by creating the discontinuous crosstab on the main report. We already have Order method on columns. Drag Product line also on the crosstab, as column. The report will look like this.

  2. Now select the intersection cells under the product line column.

  3. From its Properties, set Define contents...

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