Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Hints and Tips

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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Hints and Tips

• Charlie Jones

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Introduction..

• Multipage Dashboard
• Express Authoring
• Data Lineage
• Saving Reports to a file Location
• Auto save in Framework Manager
• Sorting Dimensionally Modelled Data.

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Multi Page Dashboard

• Create the reports
• Save reports to a folder
• Build the Page
• Deploy the Page

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Express Authoring

• Quick Financial Style Reporting.
• Switch into express author mode.
• Drag objects onto the report.

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Data Lineage

• Right Click on a Data Item In Report Studio.

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Save reports to a file location

• Edit Cognos Configuration
• Restart the service
• Configure the folder structure in Cognos
  Administration.
• Select output to file location when running
  reports.

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Auto Save In Framework Manager

• Project /Options/ Auto save.
• Global setting Applies to all projects.

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Sorting Dimensionally Modelled Data

• Edit the Dimension.
• Configure the member sort tab.

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Summary

• Multipage Dashboard
• Express Authoring
• Data Lineage.
• Saving Reports to a file Location.
• Auto save in Framework Manager.
• Sorting Dimensionally Modelled Data.