IBM Cognos Analytics Author Reports Fundamentals V11.1.x B6258G

Authors

• What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?
• Dimensionally modeled relational data
• Use personal data sources and data modules
• Examine list reports
• Aggregate fact data
• Multiple facts and repeated information
• Add repeated information to reports
• Create crosstab reports
• Create complex crosstab reports
• Work with crosstab data
• Create discontinuous crosstab reports
• Create visualization reports
• Focus reports using filters
• Focus reports using prompts
• Use calculations
• Customize reports with conditional formatting
• Drill-through definitions
• Enhance report layout
• Use additional report-building techniques

• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer

What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?

• The Welcome page

• Consume report content

• Interactive filtering

Working with reports

Dimensionally modeled relational data

Use personal data sources and data modules

• Upload personal data

• Upload custom images

Using navigation paths in a data module

Examine list reports

• Group data

• Format columns

Include headers and footers

Aggregate fact data

Identify differences in aggregation

Multiple facts and repeated information

• Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries

Present repeated information

Add repeated information to reports

Create a mailing list report

Create crosstab reports

• Add measures to a crosstab

Data sources for a crosstab

Customize reports with conditional formatting

• Three steps for conditional formatting

• Create a variable

• Assign the variable to a report object

• Format based on the conditional value

Conditionally render report objects

Drill-through definitions

Navigate to related data

• Add items as peers

Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members

Work with crosstab data

Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab

Create discontinuous crosstab reports

Create visualization reports

• Visualization categories

• Customize visualizations

• Client side visualizations

Enhanced map visualizations

Focus reports using filters

• Create filters to narrow the focus

• Use advanced detail filters

• Apply a filter with aggregation

Use summary filters

Focus reports using prompts

• Examine parameters and prompts

• Create a parameter for a report item

• Add a prompt page

• Add a prompt item to a report

• Identify a prompt type

Create a cascading prompt

Use calculations

• What are calculations?

• Add Date and Time functions

• Add string functions

Display prompt selections in report titles

Enhance report layout

• View the structure of a report

• Use Guided report layout

• Force page breaks

• Create horizontal pagination

• Modify the report structure

Format objects across reports

Use additional report-building techniques

• Enhance a report design

• Add objects to reports

• Convert a list to a crosstab

Explore reuse