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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

Using prompt macro in native SQL


In this recipe, we will write an SQL statement straight to be fired on the data source. We will use the Prompt macro to dynamically change the filter condition.

We will write a report that shows list of employee by Region and Country. We will use the Prompt macro to ask the users to enter a country name. Then the SQL statement will search for the employee belonging to that country.

Getting ready

Create a new blank list report against 'GO Data Warehouse (Query)' package.

How to do it...

  1. Go to the Query Explorer and drag an SQL object on the Query Subject that is linked to the list (Query1 in usual case).

  2. Select the SQL object and ensure that great_outdoor_warehouse is selected as the data source.

  3. Open the SQL property and add the following statement:

    select distinct "Branch_region_dimension"."REGION_EN" "Region" , "Branch_region_dimension"."COUNTRY_EN" "Country" , "EMP_EMPLOYEE_DIM"."EMPLOYEE_NAME" "Employee_name" 
    from "GOSALESDW"."GO_REGION_DIM" "Branch_region_dimension...
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