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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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Eliminating orphan rows

When a grouped report with a header or footer is generated with equal number of rows per page; it might create some orphan rows. Please see the following screenshot:

Eliminating orphan rows

As you can see the totals for Camping Equipment has gone on the next page and looks like an orphan. In this recipe, we will see how to solve such issues of orphan rows.

Getting ready

We will use the report that we created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Open the report from the location where you saved it in the previous recipe. In Cognos Report Studio, open the report page. Select any column in the list.
  2. Using ancestor selector, select the List object.
  3. Open ...
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