Fiscal Date difference Calculation
Hi Techies,I have a requirement to calculate the percentage for fiscal dates. means, i have a list report. it contains all dates with the measures. so i need to find the difference of the fiscal dates...
View ArticleRe: Analytics 11.0.6 Admin Page Not Rendering Properly
Quote from: GrumbleNuts on 27 Mar 2017 03:53:14 pmYup I know the issue and have solved it. Quite simple in the end for a really annoying issue. Took me a few weeks and a deleted AD account to finally...
View ArticleSource System Availability Validation at Report Run Time
Hi all. I looked around this section of the forum and searched for some keywords but could not find another existing topic that fits my need. Can anyone share some possible approaches to this...
View ArticleIntercompany Elimination
Hi all,I am just wondering if it was possible in Cognos Controller to produce a consolidated trial balance that either:Showed an entity trial balance after intercompany eliminations; orShowed an entity...
View ArticleRe: Unique Security Requirement for Implementation - Restrict SPI from Admin
I am kind of just restating what has been said, but maybe saying it a different way will help make it clearer.The original question referred to restricting permissions for a "sysadmin". I - and maybe...
View ArticleCreating a Environment Variable
Can a Cognos Environment Variable be used to identify the database against which the report is being run so that some kind of information (such as "test", a watermark, or exclusion of signature) can be...
View ArticleRe: Problem Involving String Data and Concatenation
Hi sjdig,I am confused on what the objective is by your example. Neither of the 2 test records have a middle initial, but I do see that the 2nd test record has the first and last name field values...
View ArticleRe: Problem Involving String Data and Concatenation
Hi, it's essentially being used as a data dump to a CSV to run an update on stored keyword records within our imaging system and then implement the use of autofill records going forward in the same...
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Re: Unique Security Requirement for Implementation - Restrict SPI from Admin
That does help, bdbits. Many times if a concept is rammed into my head in at least a few different ways, then eventually it sinks in, so thank you. Our challenge with this approach is that the...
View ArticleFormula for missing data
I need a formula that will show 'YES' if the employee is in the status of 'Full Time' does not have a Benefit plan of 'Medical', otherwise the cell needs to be blank.I tried but it didn't work: IF...
View ArticleRe: Unique Security Requirement for Implementation - Restrict SPI from Admin
you can do it by role also so you manage the database connection account used in your framework manager model (and even show and hide tables from the model developers if necessary). that way you do...
View ArticleRe: Using Promptmany with like or contains commands
I got the same situation but used contains parameter instead of like. Below is the syntax I used and it worked..[COLUMN_NAME] contains # join (''' or [COLUMN_NAME] contains ''', split(',',...
View ArticleRe: Future for Event Studio
What I've heard through the grapevine is that Event Studio will stick around until it is eventually replaced by new Cognos Analytics features.
View ArticleRe: How to render blank PDF page for double-sided printing when page breaking.
Hi,You can try placing a block under the list and sizing it, so the height of it is more than half of the page and this will take a full page.Good luckNew guy
View ArticleRe: How to render blank PDF page for double-sided printing when page breaking.
New_Guy, You ROCK! Thank you so much! I can't believe how many hours I spent trying different ways to get this to work.I put a block at the bottom of the report page (removed my unnecessary 2nd page...
View ArticleRe: Spacing issue between two lists
Hi,Did you try setting up the margin or padding below the list? Try to add padding above and below the list and see if it works.Good luckNew guy
View ArticleAvg Age by FY if BusGroup=HQPEO
Hi. All I need is to get Avg. Age for Business Group HQ/PEO by fiscal year (FY). I tried a couple of different approaches:1) average([AGE] for [FY],[BUSINESS_GROUP_NAME]='HQ/PEO')2) CASE...
View ArticleRe: 11.0.6 Invalid login response with SSO Login URL Rewrite rule
I was able to get around the issue by disabling the SSO Login rewrite rule.OS: Windows Server 2012R2Cognos: v11R6IIS: 8.5
View ArticlePost Fix Pack Blues
Cognosoids,I'm currently applying Fix Pack 12 to a Cognos 10.2.1 instance and running into some issues following installation. For some background, this is two dispatchers running on a single VM, with...
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