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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

Dynamic default value for prompt


There is a report which allows users to select a shipment month. The Shipment Month dimension has values up to current month. However, users frequently select prior month. They want the prompt to have prior month selected by default.

Getting ready

Take any report that filters on Shipment Month Key. Add a value prompt to the Shipment Month Key on the prompt page.

How to do it...

  1. Select the value prompt and define its sorting such that the Shipment Month Keys are populated in descending order.

  2. Now, as we know the dimension is always populated up to the current month and values are sorted in descending order, we will write a code that selects second value from top by default.

  3. For that, add an HTML Item just before the Shipment Month value prompt. Define the HTML as: <span id = 'A1'>

  4. Add another HTML item just after the value prompt and define it as: </span>

  5. Now add another HTML item to the prompt page footer, just after the Finish button.

  6. Define it as...

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