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IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager
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IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager

by Terence Phillip Curran
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
186 pages
3h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Creating the Business and Presentation Layers

This chapter will cover the creation of the business and presentation layers. The business layer is where we apply various business information rules to our model. The presentation layer is what the report author will see in Report Studio, Query Studio, and Analysis Studio.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Specifying attributes
  • Renaming columns
  • Adding prompts
  • Adding filters
  • Adding calculations
  • Adding formatting to data items
  • Using folders and namespaces for grouping information
  • Using shortcuts to include the same information in different places

By the end of this chapter, users will have created the business layer and extended the usefulness of their model by adding prompts, filters, ...

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