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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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Quickly changing drill targets

While the project is in the development stage, many things change. Files are moved, folders are renamed, and sometimes requirements change. This often results in re-work.

Assume that a crosstab report has been designed to drill to a target report from intersection. The drill target report accepts many parameters and their mapping is already done. However, because of some changes in business requirement, the drill from intersection now needs to go to another report. That report is already designed to accept the same parameters; we only need to change the target in the main report.

In this recipe, we will see how to quickly change the target report for a drill-through definition, without the need to map the parameters ...

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