Detailed Course Outline
What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?
- • Create a simple list report
- • Create a report from a dimensionally modeled relational data source
Examine personal data sources and data modules
- • Upload personal data
- • Upload custom images
- • Use navigation paths
- • Create a report from a personal data source
Examine list reports
- • Group data in a list
- • Format columns in a list
- • Include headers and footers in a list
- • Enhance a list report
Aggregate measure/fact data
- • Identify differences in aggregation
- • Explore data aggregation
Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
- • Create a multi-fact query in a list report
Add repeated information to reports
- • Create a mailing list report
Create crosstab reports
- • Add measures to a crosstab
- • Data sources for a crosstab
- • Create a simple crosstab report
Create complex crosstab reports
- • Add items as peers
- • Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members
- • Create a complex crosstab report
Format, sort, and aggregate data in a crosstab
- • Sort, format, and aggregate a crosstab report
Create discontinuous crosstab reports
- • Present unrelated items using a discontinuous crosstab
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
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
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
Augment reports using calculations
- • Add calculations to a report
- • Display prompt selections in the report title
Customize reports with conditional formatting
- • Create a multilingual report
- • Highlight exceptional data and conditionally render a column
Drill-through definitions
- • Let users navigate to related data in IBM Cognos Analytics
Enhance report layout
- • Create a report structured on data items
- • Create a condensed list report
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