How to use a Layout Component Reference, and override components when necessary! One of the main struggles report authors face is the maintenance of production reports.  It’s not enough to just create the report, one must also ensure the report is updated as changes are made to corporate privacy notifications, colors and logos.  This is…

Don’t hunt and peck for your piece of the report, use a table of contents! A table of contents, sometimes headed as Contents or abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list usually found on the first page of a report.  It includes section titles or brief descriptions with their corresponding page numbers.  When running a…

Here’s how to toggle between hiding and showing parts of a report Custom Controls, a new capability with release eleven, easily enables the report author to add Java Script to the report, thus providing an enhanced user experience when rendering the data in HTML.  As long as the report is running in full interactive mode,…

Use an overall footer to add a high-level summary data set to the end of your report. Unlike a “List Page Header and Footer” which appears at the top or bottom of every page respectively in which list data appears, an “Overall Header and Footer” only appears once at the top or bottom of the…

What Can a List Header and Footer Do for you in Cognos Analytics 11+ Just make your report look and read great! I recently had a client who wanted to see summary cost information on Sales Orders at the header of the page, with details available in a list report.  I tried using singleton’s and…

Wow, branding on my Cognos Portal! Business Case:  When using Cognos Analytics V11, there is a default theme which is quite nice, but not very brand friendly. The goal of this article is to show you how to go from this generic IBM theme ….   To the customized portal screen below… As you can…

You’re kidding, I can now drill through to a report from a dashboard! One of the most popular Cognos Analytics (CA) enhancement requests across all of IBM has been the ability to drill from a Dashboard to a Report.  Well, it can now be done.  It is an easy task to author a drill-through that…

Let’s add additional visualizations and create an interactive workspace. In my last knowledge base article, “Creating a Simple Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11.0.0+”, I covered how to easily create a single visualization depicting a key performance indicator (KPI).  Taking this a step further, this article will show you how to add multiple visualizations to create…

Let’s get started with Dashboard basics… It’s easy! Business Case: The City of Boston currently utilizes a “311 System”, which enables city residents or city workers to easily report non-emergency issues. Items such as broken streetlights or graffiti can be reported to the proper city services department via mobile phone applications, online, social media or…

Wow, now I can add a URL link to my Cognos Analytics (CA) Welcome Page! Business Case:  In an earlier QueBIT Knowledge Base article, “Setting a Default Welcome Page in Cognos Analytics 11.0.4+”, you learned how to set up a custom welcome page in CA.  In this article, we are going to add a URL…