Course Overview
This offering provides Business and Professional Authors with an introduction to report building techniques using relational data models. Techniques to enhance, customize, and manage professional reports will be explored. Activities will illustrate and reinforce key concepts during this learning opportunity.
Course Objectives
What is IBM Cognos AnalyticsReporting
Examine dimensionally modelled and dimensional data sources
Examine personal data sources and data modules
Examine List reports
Aggregate measure/fact data
Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
Add repeated information to reports
Create crosstab reports
Create complex crosstab reports
Format, sort, and aggregate data in a crosstab report
Create discontinuous crosstab reports
Create Visualization reports
Add business logic to reports using IBM Cognos AnalyticsReporting
Focus reports using filters
Focus reports using prompts
Augment reports using calculations
Extend report functionality in IBM Cognos AnalyticsReporting
Customize reports with conditional formatting
Conditionally format one crosstab measure based on another
Drill-through definitions
Enhance the report layout
Use additional report building techniques
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Report Authors
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Course Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Agenda
1 - What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
- Create a simple list report
- Create a report from a dimensionally modeled relational data source
2 - Examine personal data sources and data modules
- Upload personal data
- Upload custom images
- Use navigation paths
- Create a report from a personal data source
3 - Examine list reports
- Group data in a list
- Format columns in a list
- Include headers and footers in a list
- Enhance a list report
4 - Aggregate measure/fact data
- Identify differences in aggregation
- Explore data aggregation
5 - Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
- Create a multi-fact query in a list report
6 - Add repeated information to reports
- Create a mailing list report
7 - Create crosstab reports
- Add measures to a crosstab
- Data sources for a crosstab
- Create a simple crosstab report
8 - Create complex crosstab reports
- Add items as peers
- Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members
- Create a complex crosstab report
9 - Format, sort, and aggregate data in a crosstab
- Sort, format, and aggregate a crosstab report
10 - Create discontinuous crosstab reports
- Present unrelated items using a discontinuous crosstab
11 - Create a visualization report
- Create and format a visualization report
- Create a report that uses a Map visualization
- Show the same data graphically and numerically
12 - Focus reports using filters
- Apply filters to a report
- Apply a detail filter on fact data in a report
- Apply a summary filter to a report
13 - Focus reports using prompts
- Create a prompt by adding a parameter
- Add a value prompt to a report
- Add a Select & search prompt to a report
- Create a cascading prompt
14 - Augment reports using calculations
- Add calculations to a report
- Display prompt selections in the report title
15 - Customize reports with conditional formatting
- Create a multilingual report
- Highlight exceptional data and conditionally render a column
16 - Drill-through definitions
- Let users navigate to related data in IBM Cognos Analytics
17 - Enhance report layout
- Create a report structured on data items
- Create a condensed list report
18 - Use additional report building techniques
- Section a report and reuse objects within the same report
- Reuse layout components in a different report
- Explore options for reports that contain no data