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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

You're reading from   IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Discover the practical approach to BI with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683562
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. IBM Cognos Connection 2. Introducing IBM Cognos Workspace FREE CHAPTER 3. IBM Cognos Active Reports 4. IBM Cognos Mobile 5. IBM Cognos Query Studio 6. IBM Cognos Analysis Studio 7. IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced 8. IBM Cognos Report Studio 9. IBM Cognos Framework Manager 10. Administration and Performance Tuning 11. Streamlining Common Administrator Tasks 12. User Adoption Index

Sharing the dashboard


The first and most important step for sharing a dashboard is creating it and making it fit a common business need. So far, we have looked at creating the content and customizing our dashboard. Now we can look at adding comments and saving our dashboard to a shared location for others to access it. We can finish a dashboard by saving it to a public location and adding comments to any of the objects that we think need an explanation. I will save our report and put a comment on the edited chart to explain why I changed it. This comment can contain whatever information we think is pertinent for sharing with the other users.

The comment is shown in the following screenshot:

Then, when a future user opens this dashboard, they can hover over the chart and see my note. By saving the dashboard in public folders, you are able to allow others to access it and share the information that you created.

In addition to having the ability of being saved, the dashboard can be e-mailed...

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Published in: May 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849683562
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