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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook
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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

by Abhishek Sanghani
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Prompts: Display value versus use value

In order to achieve the best performance with our queries, we need to perform filtering on the numerical key columns. However, the display values in the prompts need to be textual and user friendly.

In this recipe, we will create a filter that displays the product line list (textual values) but actually filters on the numerical codes.

Getting ready

Create a simple list report with Product | Product name and Sales fact | Quantity as columns.

How to do it...

  1. Open Page Explorer and click on the Prompt Pages folder. Drag a new page from Insertable Objects under Prompt Pages.
    How to dopromptsdisplay value it...
  2. Double click on the newly created prompt ...
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