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Course Description

  • This course provides Business and Professional Authors with an introduction to advanced report building techniques using relational data models, and ways of enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports.

    Note: Guided eLearning is a self-paced offering which includes web-based content for self-study and videos (including audio) that demonstrate activities.

    If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course.

Objectives

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Audience

  • Business and Professional Authors

Prerequisites

  •  An understanding of the fundamentals of creating reports using IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
    • An understanding of your organization’s business intelligence process and reporting needs
    • An understanding of your organization’s business reporting data

Content

  • 1. Create query models
    • Build query models and then connect them to the report layout
    • Edit and SQL statement to author custom queries
    • Add filters and prompts to a report using the query model
    2. Create reports based on query relationships
    • Create reports by joining queries
    • Combine data containers based on relationships from different queries
    3. Create advanced dynamic reports
    • Filter reports on session parameter values
    • Navigate a briefing book using a table of contents
    • Create dynamic headers and titles that reflect report data
    • Create a customer invoice report
    • Display summarized data before detailed data
    • Highlight alternate rows in a list report
    • Create a report using an external data file
    • Use single data items to summarize report information
    4.Explore the Prompt API
    • Describe the Prompt API
    • Describe the uses of the Prompt API
    • Describe the primary objects, methods, and properties used in the Prompt API
    • Review prompt values