I have a Scenario where one main report pulls in many sub-reports around 10. Remember each report has a union of 6 queries pulling for a particular month.
This can be done in separate 10 reports also but if cognos has that capability then thought of trying it.
Wouldn't be a good report design...
XX XY XZ Total /Avg
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A M1 10 10 10 30
M2 4 10 1 5
M3 3 3 15 7
where M1 M2 M3 are measures.
M1 should give Total
M2 and M3 should give average
how it is possible incognos??? conditional formatting?
please help..
here is the scenario .. In a crosstab report, need to dynamically change the column based on prompt , so created a calculated column 'x' and placed in the report as crosstab row.
x=if(?prompt1? is not null and ?prompt2? is null) then 'column1' else if (?prompt2? is not null and ?prompt3? is...
so in my case I need to build 3 crosstab in each 3 different pages and use the render logic to hide and show the pages???
If so , i never done this could you please explain the steps??
thanks so much ..
how to hide cross tab row based on prompt value without messing up the column title??
I did:
I created a boolean variable
on report page,
clicked on the row which I want to hide.
set the boolean variable to style variable
select box type = none.
o/p:
the required row was hidden based on...
I created the prompts for all 5 levels and before created a conditional string variable , do I need to create static choices.
could you please explain the steps , ejaycognos@gmail.com.
I have worked with only hide and show objects , these conditional variables are bit confusing going thru few...
Here is the scenario ..
Level 1 (Required Prompt)-> Level 2(Required Prompt)-> Level 3 -> Level 4 -> Level 5 -> Level 6
High Level -> Low Level
In a crosstab with multiple measures , If the user selects Level 3 prompt, the o/p should group by Level 3 and in o/p shows Level 4.
If a user...
union all also takes some time.
or should I contact cog support , to clear some space in temp folder and increase its size if needed?
I did some reasearch in cog document and they told to check on the available space in temp folder.
Thanks blom for clarifying the UNION All query.
I guess then using UNION ALL may improve the performance , I am going try with union all.
Thanks bicog8 for your reply .. no I haven't tried this , I will create a test report and implement this scenario and will inform how it worked.
Thanks blom for the reply.
I have only access at report studio level,how to create a cognos sql object? I have not worked much on these union , pls guide.
Also, in Union I set the properties to Remove duplicates , so still I need to consider Union All ?
This is what I done in my rport :
I...
Ideas To improve the runtime of report at report level?
using UNion query of combinng 3 query in a crosstab with 5 measures. All the calculations and filters are done at union query only , as at individual query it throws some error , thus doing it at union query.
The execution time is very...
Thanks blom for the input , the above formula worked perfect when I tried with single query in a crosstab report.
However , when I used in 3 queries and unioned them , it throws error as "error;sqlOpenResult status=-28"
UDA-SQL-0107 A general exception has occured during the operation...
I have a union of 3 queries each has a record id and field X.
NOw , I need to do record count grouped by X.
In report studio , we can easily get record count = count(distinct record id) but need to group by X.
I am using cognos 8.2 report studio , crosstab report with union of 3 queries.
I...
I have a report where there are multiple prompt queries got from single table , the final prompt I need to get from different table ie from union query(its a union of 3 tables).
prompt 1 ------
prompt 2 ------
prompt 3 ------ All these 5 prompt are got from TABLE 1
prompt 4 ------
prompt...
Thanks blom for the reply.
how to change the aggregate settings in the reporting tool?
can we change the usage property at the tool itsself , if so , please let me know how?
I thought we can do it in package side only.
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