IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Advanced (V11.1.x)
This course teaches experienced authors advanced report building techniques to enhance, customize, manage, and distribute reports. Additionally, the student will learn how to create highly interactive and engaging reports that can be run offline by creating Active Reports.
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366 Students
Content
• Combine data containers based on relationships from different queries
• Describe the dimensional approach to queries
• Apply report authoring styles
• Identify sets and tuples in reports
• Examine dimensional report measures
• Use the default measure to create a summarized column in a report
• Compare the use of the filter() function to a detail filter
Enhance user interaction with
HTML
• Create interactive reports using HTML
• Include additional information with tooltips
Calculations and dimensional
functions
• Examine dimensional functions
• Show totals and exclude members
• Create a percent of base calculation
• Control report output using a query macro
• Create a dynamic growth report
• Create a report that displays summary data before detailed data and uses singletons to summarize information
• Create a prompt that provides users a choice between different filters
• Create a prompt to let users choose a column sort order
• Create a prompt to let users select a display type
• Identify considerations when modifying report specifications
• Customize reporting objects
• Burst a list report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst table
• Create a simple Active Report using Static and Data-driven controls
• Change filtering and selection behavior in a report
• Create interaction between multiple controls and variables
• Create an Active Report with 11.0 visualizations
Target Audience
Duration
Create query models
• Build a query and connect it to a report
• Answer a business question by referencing data in a separate query
Create reports based on query
relationships
• Create join relationships between queries • Combine data containers based on relationships from different queries
• Create a report comparing the
percentage of change
Introduction to dimensional reporting concepts
• Examine data sources and model types • Describe the dimensional approach to queries
• Apply report authoring styles
Introduction to dimensional data
in reports
• Use members to create reports • Identify sets and tuples in reports
• Use query calculations and set definitions
Dimensional report context
• Examine dimensional report members • Examine dimensional report measures
• Use the default measure to create a summarized column in a report
Focus your dimensional data
• Focus your report by excluding members of a defined set • Compare the use of the filter() function to a detail filter
• Filter dimensional data using slicers
• Create interactive reports using HTML
• Include additional information with tooltips
• Send emails using links in a report
• Examine dimensional functions
• Show totals and exclude members
• Create a percent of base calculation
Create advanced dynamic
reports
• Use query macros • Control report output using a query macro
• Create a dynamic growth report
• Create a report that displays summary data before detailed data and uses singletons to summarize information
Design effective prompts
• Create a prompt that allows users to select conditional formatting
values • Create a prompt that provides users a choice between different filters
• Create a prompt to let users choose a column sort order
• Create a prompt to let users select a display type
Examine the report
specification
• Examine report specification flow • Identify considerations when modifying report specifications
• Customize reporting objects
Distribute reports
• Burst a report to email recipients by using a data item • Burst a list report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst table
• Burst a crosstab report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst
table and a master detail relationship
Introduction to IBM Cognos Active
Reports
• Examine Active Report controls and variables • Create a simple Active Report using Static and Data-driven controls
• Change filtering and selection behavior in a report
• Create interaction between multiple controls and variables
Active Report charts and
decks
• Create an Active Report with a Deck • Create an Active Report with 11.0 visualizations
Target Audience
Authors
Duration
2 Days - Basic to Intermediate
