Course Outline
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
Create complex crosstab reports
- 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
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
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
Objective
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
Create complex crosstab reports
- 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...
