IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

Chapter 2. Advanced Report Authoring

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Adding cascaded prompts
• Nested reports: defining master detail queries
• Writing back to the database
• Conditional formatting
• Show negative numbers in red and brackets
• New conditional styling with version 8.3 onwards
• Conditional block—many reports in one
• Drill link from crosstab intersections
• Overriding crosstab intersection expression and drill

Introduction

Now as you have implemented the recipes in Chapter 1, or read them through, I am confident that we are on the same page about fundamental techniques of report authoring.

You now know how filtering, sorting, and aggregations work. You also know how to apply data formatting, create sections, and hide columns. You are also now ...