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IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook, Second Edition Getting the most out of IBM Cognos Report Studio is a breeze with this recipe-packed cookbook. Cherry-pick the ones you want or go through the tutorial step by step ‚Äì either way you'll end up with some highly impressive reports.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849688208
Length 364 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Report Authoring Basic Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Report Authoring 3. Using JavaScript Files – Tips and Tricks 4. The Report Page – Tips and Tricks 5. Working with XML 6. Writing Printable Reports 7. Working with Dimensional Models 8. Working with Macros 9. Using Report Studio Efficiently 10. Working with Active Reports 11. Charts and New Chart Features 12. More Useful Recipes 13. Best Practices Recommendations and References Index

Copying and pasting partial or full reports


Perhaps this is not something that is going to impress you. However, I was really impressed when I saw this feature. We will see how to copy part of a report and a full report and paste it into another instance.

We often need to copy part of a report or the full report from one Report Studio environment or instance, to another. This might be for re-use purposes or for promoting it to the next stage.

Getting ready

We will use the report created in the previous recipe for this one.

How to do it...

In this recipe we will see how to copy part of a report—in our case, a query and its list table—from one report to another report. We will also see how to copy the whole report to a new report. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the report in Report Studio. We will call it the Source instance.

  2. Now open another instance of Report Studio from the same connection portal for the same package, GO Data Warehouse (query). We will call this instance Destination...

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