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2. Agenda Report Studio Overview Report Studio New features Workshops
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3. Page, Query & Condition Explorer Insertable Object pane
Cognos Report studio
Page, Query & Condition Explorer
Insertable Object pane
Object Property pane
Work Area
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4. Report studio New features
Drill-up / drill-down.
Layout components can now be shared between reports.
Conditional Rendering of Objects in Reports
New ‘Member summary’ and Report functions
Creation of Query Studio Template
Maps
New Chart types added
Drill behavior enabled in Charts
Baselines, markers and notes.
Class styles
Crosstab Nodes and Crosstab Node Members
Disconnected or disjoint crosstabs, or crosstabs with unrelated columns.
Page sets
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5. Report Studio Overview
BI reports
Lists
Crosstabs
Charts
Repeater
Maps
Complex Reports
Multi-Frame
Drill up/down, through
Freeform Layout
Multi-Page
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6. List Reports Headers and footers
List report shows data in rows and columns. It is used to show detailed information. The layout options available in a list report are
Headers and footers
List header
Once for each occurrence of the list
Ex. on each page
Overall header
Once for the entire list
Group header(s)
Group footer(s)
Overall footer
List footer
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7. Crosstab Reports
Crosstab reports are used to show information in a more compact form than in a grouped list. Crosstabs are composed of edges
- Row edge defines the members listed on the left side of the crosstab
- Column edge defines the members listed at the top of the crosstab
- Cells contain the measure values
Edges are composed of:
Crosstab Node: a collection of Node Members and Nested Nodes
Crosstab Node Member: a collection of data items that define members
Measures are also valid parts of an edge.
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8. Crosstab Reports Default measure:
- the measure used when the row/column edge does not define one
- dropping a measure into the cells will set the default measure
Report Studio shows the default measure name in the crosstab corner
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9. Crosstab Reports
There are distinct drop zones within the crosstab allowing you to create very complex reports very easily.
We use this drop zone to create child objects.
And this drop zone to create peer objects –unions.
Every cell has 4 Drop Zones –one on each side, one on the top, and one on the bottom.
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10. Crosstab Reports
Use drag and drop to create many different Crosstab layouts using the Drop Zones Feature
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11. Crosstab Reports Crosstab reports features are as follows:
Multiple measures
Nested rows or columns
Multi Grain
Drill Up/Down , Drill Through
Free Form layout
Conditional rendering
Maps
Totals at groups
Row or column
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13. Charts
Charts are a graphical way of representing data. They reveal trends and relationships that are not evident in tabular reports.
There are over 100 chart types and chart sub-types available
Column charts
Bar charts
Pareto
Line
Pie
Area
Point
Radial
Progressive Column
Progressive Bar
Gauge
Maps
Scatter, Bubble
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14. Charts
One can define drill up or down or drill through from elements in a chart.
Charts can be enhanced by applying informational overlays such as baselines, markers, and notes.
Maps
Use Map Manager to design your own maps.
Maps are defined by layers:
Region - color code areas on the map to compare values such as World, Country, or State
Point - color or size to map to compare values for cities, plants, sale districts
Display - show additional map details to provide context to the reader such as grids and/or an ocean Maps
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16. Query Tabular, Summary and Cube elements are no longer there.
Has more simplified structure than in the earlier version.
The Query model supports both RDBMS and OLAP data. It also supports Multi-Dimensional Expressions.
One can have both a metadata (dimension/hierarchy/level) based and member based views of the dimensional data
Joining queries (not Tables), Set Operations on Queries are defined in Query Explorer.
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17. Query Filters Detail filters Summary filters Slicers
- In a crosstab, a slicer is a filter that is applied to the cells of the crosstab, but not the rows or columns.
- A slicer is a set of slicer member sets. Each slicer member set is an expression that returns a set of members from the same dimension.
- multiple slicer member sets can not be created against the same dimension.
- a child member of a report item can be added as a slicer.
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18. Prompts Prompts are user interface controls to request user input.
The features of prompts are as follows:
Used for parameters in filters and calculations
Optional and required
Single and multiple values
Multilingual
Report Studio will default prompt type
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19. Prompt Types Text Box Prompt Value Prompt Select & Search prompt
Date prompt
Time prompt
Date/Time prompt
Interval prompt
Generated Prompt
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20. Layout Objects
The different layout objects available to create a report are:
Table
Block
Text
List
Crosstab
Chart
Map
Repeater
Bookmark
Html
Image
Hyperlink
Calculation
Filters
Prompt
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21. Conditional Processing
Conditional highlighting based on variables
Conditional text based on multilingual variables
Conditional Blocks
Conditional Rendering:
object not rendered based on variable
as if the object does not exist (versus exists but transparent or hidden)
most useful to hide a column in a list
supported on:
Block, Text item, List, List column, Crosstab, Chart, Table, Repeater, Repeater Table, Repeater Table Cell, image, hyperlink, hyperlink button, prompts, HTML item, field set, and so on.
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22. Shared Layout Components
Report Studio’s use of Shared Layout Components:
The layout components can be shared across reports
The layout component can be updated at run-time or design time:
Each time the report is run it fetches the latest page header and uses it
Update the page header only when the Report Studio user elects to do so
Layout Component Cache
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