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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 drill link


A crosstab report shows Sales Quantity by quarter (rows), Product line (columns) and Order method (columns). The report has several filters.

There is a drill-through report which is to be called from the report columns, that is, product line and order method. When called, all the filter values are to be passed.

In this recipe, we will see how to define the drill-through and parameter mapping once and then copy-paste it for other drills—hence saving the development time.

Getting ready

Create a crosstab report to be used as main report in the following format:

Define all the prompts and filters on main report.

Now create a drill report that will accept all these parameters and additional information like Product line and Order method. This is shown as follows:

How to do it...

  1. We will start by defining the drill-through from Product line columns. Do it manually from Report Studio in a conventional way. Map all the parameters appropriately.

  2. Now select the Order method column...

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