IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.1.x)
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Course Details
IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.1.x)
Course Code: B6258G
Duration: 3 Days
Prerequisites:
• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer
Course Description:
This course provides authors with an introduction to build reports using Cognos Analytics. Techniques to enhance, customize, and manage reports will be explored. Activities will illustrate and reinforce key concepts during this learning opportunity.
Course Objectives:
Learn the full scope of the metadata modeling process, from initial project creation, to publishing of metadata to the web, enabling end users to easily author reports and analyze data.
Intended Audience:
Authors
Course Outlines:
1. What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
• The Welcome page
• Consume report content
• Interactive filtering
• Working with reports
2. Dimensionally modeled relational data
3. Use personal data sources and data modules
• Upload personal data
• Upload custom images
• Using navigation paths in a data module
4. Examine list reports
• Group data
• Format columns
• Include headers and footers
5. Aggregate fact data
• Identify differences in aggregation
6. Multiple facts and repeated information
• Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
• Present repeated information
7. Add repeated information to reports
• Create a mailing list report
8. Create crosstab reports
• Add measures to a crosstab
• Data sources for a crosstab
9. Create complex crosstab reports
• Add items as peers
• Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members
10. Work with crosstab data
• Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab
11. Create discontinuous crosstab reports
12. Create visualization reports
• Visualization categories
• Customize visualizations
• Client side visualizations
• Enhanced map visualizations
13. Focus reports using filters
• Create filters to narrow the focus
• Use advanced detail filters
• Apply a filter with aggregation
• Use summary filters
14. Focus reports using prompts
• Examine parameters and prompts
• Create a parameter for a report item
• Add a prompt page
• Add a prompt item to a report
• Identify a prompt type
• Create a cascading prompt
15. Use calculations
• What are calculations?
• Add Date and Time functions
• Add string functions
• Display prompt selections in report titles
16. Customize reports with conditional formatting
• Three steps for conditional formatting
• Create a variable
• Assign the variable to a report object
• Format based on the conditional value
• Conditionally render report objects
17.Drill-through definitions
• Navigate to related data
18. Enhance report layout
• View the structure of a report
• Use Guided report layout
• Force page breaks
• Create horizontal pagination
• Modify the report structure
• Format objects across reports
19. Use additional report-building techniques
• Enhance a report design
• Add objects to reports
• Convert a list to a crosstab
• Explore reuse