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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

Creating nested report: Defining master detail relationship


Users want to see product lines, products, and corresponding unit costs. For every product, they also want to see the trend of sales over last year.

We need to produce a list report with required information and nest a line chart within it to show the sales trend.

Getting ready

Create a simple list report based on the Sales (query) namespace. Pull Product | Product line, Product | Product name and Sales fact | Unit cost in the list.

How to do it...

  1. We already have a list report that shows the product lines, products, and corresponding unit costs. Please make sure that appropriate sorting and aggregations are applied to the columns.

  2. Now we will add a nested Chart object to show the sales trend for each product.

  3. Drag a new Chart object from the Insertable Objects pane onto the report as a column.

  4. Choose an appropriate chart type. In this recipe, we will choose "Line with Markers".

  5. From Source pane, drag Quantity from Sales fact onto the chart...

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