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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

Copy-pasting partial or full report


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

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

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

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

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

  3. Now go to Query Explorer in both the instances.

  4. Right click on Query1 from the Source instance and choose Copy.

    In the Query Explorer of the Destination instance, right-click and choose to Paste.

  5. You will see that the Query Subject is successfully copied. You...

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