Extend and distribute reports using IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting – eLearning – k01005gwpl
Course #: K01005GWPL
Duration: 7.2 Hours
This course provides Business and Professional Authors with additional report building techniques by extending reports using effective prompts and report specifications, distributing reports using bursting techniques, and enhancing reports with HTML.
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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. Design effective prompts
• Control report displays by using prompts
• Specify conditional formatting values using prompts
• Create sored and filtered reports based on prompt selection
2.Examine the report specification
• Work with the report specification structure
• The rpoert specification flow
• Considerations for modifying a report specification
• Create custom toolbox and template objects
3.Distribute reports
• Distribute reports using bursting
• Create burst keys
• Identify report recipients and data items using burst tables
• Distribute reports using email and the IBM Cognos Analytics portal
• Burst a dimensional container
4.Enhance user interaction with HTML
• Create interactive reports using HTML
• Include additional information with tooltips
• Send emails using links in a report