Re: Combining Groups into single Prompt
If I understand, you have four levels of a hierarchy that you want to prompt for. You need to make a filter in Framework that will generate a prompt, with all 4 levels unioned together, when used in an...
View ArticleRe: Way to create a report without Framework model and package
Hi. Sorry to be responding to a very old thread but I haven't found this topic elsewhere.I wonder if the original poster is migrating to Cognos from another tool (lot of that going around these days,...
View ArticleRe: Master page for all reports
Thanks Chris for the pointer. I have tried the layout component reference for header and footer and its working fine except a case.I have a singleton object in header where I put the prompt value like...
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Re: Master page for all reports
It probably will be - but you can create multiple headers in the library report and just pull in the one that you want into target report. So you could have versions with the customer name or without etc.
View ArticleRe: Is there a way to freeze the sliding panes?
Can you explain more? This sounds like an opportunity to use the IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager; running the same report in different instances and comparing the output.
View ArticleRe: Query Calculation to Assign 13 Different Hourly Values
Same error when adding that code in a Query Calculationin a new List w/ only [Time of Incident] and the Query Calculation.An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlOpenResult' status='-9'....
View ArticleRe: converting FQDN to short names
I re-read your requirement and I see in your example that the domain name is the same within a single row. If so, there's an easier method:I used Oracle as my data source so you'll have to change the...
View ArticleRe: Query Calculation to Assign 13 Different Hourly Values
BigChris - You have helped me a tot. THANK you.I have used VBA's InStr a lot, so I think I understand how Cognos" substring works including charindex.If you would like to check the ode, which...
View Articlemember1-member2 does not work when member2 has no values
Hi , I have a table with one member as a column , other member as another column and a third column with the auto calculated column member1-member2 This works for each case where the member 1 and...
View ArticleRe: Help needed in Crosstab layout preparation
Quote from: Nagendar on 16 Mar 2017 08:39:02 amHi, Thanks for your reply. Its Existing report (Crosstab). Few more columns are needed in that report which are coming from new table. We joined it and...
View ArticleRe: Query Calculation to Assign 13 Different Hourly Values
The 3rd party App integrates Cognos for Reporting. They do not permit Users to see Table design.The datatype for their 'Time of Incident' is probably a DateTime. Therefore, substring shouldn't work...
View ArticleRe: The Cognos connection does not opens on Office document. It opens in...
Hi AlexI've the same truble, can you pls detail which was the Cognos Server Security problem ??Thanks
View ArticleSet sort in query and viewer is corret by sort is incorret in excel
Set the sort in the query using the sort functions from Report Studio. When I output to excel the sort is incorrect. This will be a scheduled report so not sure if I can use the parameters functions.
View ArticleRe: Audit Extention Module with C11
Quote from: GrumbleNuts on 19 Mar 2017 08:51:34 pmWe have the audit extension working in 11.0.5Out of curiosity, did you run into any incompatibility issues with 11? The comment replies by IBM on the...
View ArticleMapping in R6
Hi all,I've been getting ready to dive in mapping in Cognos Analytics and in R6 streets, zip codes and cities are added. But when I've played around in it, it is difficult to find what is the exact...
View ArticleGroup By ID and Category but display Name on Dashboard
Hello, I wasn't sure whether to post this topic in the Dashboard or FM board, but seems like it will need to be dealt with in FM so I'm posting it here.I am using a bar chart in a dashboard for sales...
View ArticleRe: Set sort in query and viewer is corret by sort is incorret in excel
Hi,Setting up the sort on a data item in a query should work in any format or with scheduled reports. Can you try this on a sample report or share a sample xml to look into?Are you using the data item...
View ArticleMOVED: Cognos Analytics - Publishing a Report
This topic has been moved to Administration and Security.http://www.cognoise.com/index.php?topic=32625.0
View ArticleRe: Drill-Through Open in New Window loses header, how to keep?
Quote from: zakatak on Today at 09:36:39 amJust migrated to Cognos Analytics from 10. Migration went well, reports are functional. But we have a slight oddity. The drill-through definitions on some of...
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