Create Advanced Reports using IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting – eLearning – k01004gwpl
Course #: K01004GWPL
Duration: 7.2 Hours
This course provides Business and Professional Authors with an introduction to advanced report building techniques using relational data models, and ways of enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports.
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Objectives
Please refer to course overview
Audience
Business and Professional Authors
Prerequisites
• An understanding of the fundamentals of creating reports using IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
• An understanding of your organization’s business intelligence process and reporting needs
• An understanding of your organization’s business reporting data
Topics
1. Create query models
• Build query models and then connect them to the report layout
• Edit and SQL statement to author custom queries
• Add filters and prompts to a report using the query model
2. Create reports based on query relationships
• Create reports by joining queries
• Combine data containers based on relationships from different queries
3. Create advanced dynamic reports
• Filter reports on session parameter values
• Navigate a briefing book using a table of contents
• Create dynamic headers and titles that reflect report data
• Create a customer invoice report
• Display summarized data before detailed data
• Highlight alternate rows in a list report
• Create a report using an external data file
• Use single data items to summarize report information
4.Explore the Prompt API
• Describe the Prompt API
• Describe the uses of the Prompt API
• Describe the primary objects, methods, and properties used in the Prompt API
• Review prompt values