IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.1.x)

Authors

Please refer to course overview

• What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?
• The Welcome page
• Consume report content
• Interactive filtering
• Working with reports Dimensionally modeled relational data Use personal data sources and data modules
• Upload personal data
• Upload custom images
• Using navigation paths in a data module Examine list reports
• Group data
• Format columns
• Include headers and footers Aggregate fact data
• Identify differences in aggregation Multiple facts and repeated information
• Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
• Present repeated information Add repeated information to reports
• Create a mailing list report Create crosstab reports
• Add measures to a crosstab
• Data sources for a crosstab Create complex crosstab reports
• Add items as peers
• Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members Work with crosstab data
• Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab Create discontinuous crosstab reports Create visualization reports
• Visualization categories
• Customize visualizations
• Client side visualizations
• Enhanced map visualizations Focus reports using filters
• Create filters to narrow the focus
• Use advanced detail filters 
• Apply a filter with aggregation
• Use summary filters Focus reports using prompts
• Examine parameters and prompts
• Create a parameter for a report item
• Add a prompt page
• Add a prompt item to a report
• Identify a prompt type
• Create a cascading prompt Use calculations
• What are calculations?
• Add Date and Time functions
• Add string functions
• Display prompt selections in report titles Customize reports with conditional formatting
• Three steps for conditional formatting
• Create a variable
• Assign the variable to a report object
• Format based on the conditional value
• Conditionally render report objects Drill-through definitions
• Navigate to related data Enhance report layout
• View the structure of a report
• Use Guided report layout
• Force page breaks
• Create horizontal pagination
• Modify the report structure
• Format objects across reports Use additional report-building techniques
• Enhance a report design
• Add objects to reports
• Convert a list to a crosstab
• Explore reuse

• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer