using CAST function within Conditional Formatting - help - parsing error?
HiI am attempting to apply a conditional style to a report i have. My issue is i am attempting to take into account a date/time output and a text output in order for it to place a style requested. But...
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Looks like you have an additional ) before AND in your first condition. Sent from my ZUK Z2132 using Tapatalk
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Quote from: Kiran P on Today at 05:47:21 amLooks like you have an additional ) before AND in your first condition. Sent from my ZUK Z2132 using Tapatalk i have removed this but still getting error....
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Quote from: imzy66 on Today at 06:11:10 am i have removed this but still getting error. same position of error too :SCan you do the cast as a query calculation without getting a parsing error? You...
View ArticleDuplicate levels under one dimension in Report studio
Hello guys, New to transformer and was playing around with test data. Found a strange thing and I don't know how to restore it although it doesn't impact analysis studio. I created a dimension called...
View ArticleRe: Hide Header in Cognos 11.0.5
Hi,if I understand you correctly all you have to do to hide the header of a "normal" (not interactive) report is select "box type" in the properties of the header and further select "none" rather than...
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Re: Page layout conventions - how do I get a block to break to the next page?
I agree with you that a great deal of the layouting is hugely unintuitive, but "i always want two pages, so i best drag two pages into my report" seems to be among the most intuitive things I can think...
View ArticleIF Command in the Rules help
I am a newbie and if anyone can help me if would be appreciated.I have a cube called costing with 2 dimension with product dimension and a measure dimension cogs_measure.Inside the cogs_measure there...
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Hi everyoneHas anyone used information governance catalog as the lineage source in cognos analytics? I've made changes to the metadata information service URI in cogmnos admin. Now when I right click...
View ArticleRe: Page layout conventions - how do I get a block to break to the next page?
Another thing to consider is the "Allow row contents to break across pages" checkbox under pagination. If your page dynamically renders sections, you could put each object in tables in the main table...
View ArticleRe: Hidden info for sections?
I solved it myself. Apparently it's enough to change the aggregation of all measure data items from automatic to total. I wonder why Cognos chooses another option than total for the numbers with...
View ArticleRe: Creating a subset by "reading" the index of a prompted value
Thanks for your help so far, CognosPaul.I couldn't get the function to work though. My example earlier is a simplification of the real Situation:We've got a hierarchy like this[...]20162016 Q12016...
View ArticleRe: Page layout conventions - how do I get a block to break to the next page?
You start with: "I have a table with 2 columns and 3 rows." So, for me at least, you basically relate the grahps with each other in one table. Then why do you expect Cognos to break that relationship?...
View ArticleRe: Creating a subset by "reading" the index of a prompted value
That makes it a lot easier. Replace the level function from my example and put in the Period level. Read the tip for periodsToDate to understand the function and what's going on.
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Got this from guy in my network ...'Percentage Closed After Due Date = ' + cast(cast(Count([ClosedAfterDueDate])*100/Count([Action Item Status]),decimal(4,2)),varchar(5)) + '%'But remember that having...
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Hi all,I have read many points of view about degenerate dimensions. In the end I decided to keep the Invoice number in the fact table instead of creating a dimension that grows just as fast. Then I...
View ArticleRe: HTML Report output - links for Top, Page Up, Page Down and Bottom missing
No, nothing special at all. Just a simple list report with a header that contains a logo.
View Article"Working" Runs Nonstop When Trying to Create Data Module
Trying to Create 1st Data Module in Cognos 11 Analytics ...Watched an excellent YouTube video how to do that.Have uploaded two Excel files (yes, as one worksheet only ... only way it will upload).Added...
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Quote(yes, as one worksheet only ... only way it will upload). Yes, each file has to have only one worksheet.I can't say that I've encountered the problem you are seeing. Mind you, I don't recall...
View ArticleRe: "Working" Runs Nonstop When Trying to Create Data Module
We subscribe to an App whose, perhaps their best BI guy, is in India (9 hours ahead of us). He will reply about 4 or 5 hours from now.I will run your suggestions (THANK you) by him tomorrow.I wonder...
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