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Hi, How does one trigger the Cognos Go Office or Cognos office connection in Cognos 8. I searched for this and dint get much of an information. Is it sort of a feature thats available in the cognos connection portal or does it need a separate instal?

Hi All, Thanks for all the information. The problem in my case is the end user requirement. The only advantage of having cubes is to report it in the Excel client of Powerplay. All the users are well versed in Excel and they probably prefer excel client to work with reports. If i am not...

Hi, I guess u need a datawarehouse in place to work with Framework manager efficiently. Framework manager can never replace the functionality of an ETL tool in building a model for the datawarehouse. It could prove really tedious even for creating a new surrogate key for the model in Framework...

Thanks all for the information.

Thanks MFGF, I got that information. Can you provide me with some information on how much does a PPES liecense and an individual powerplay transformer and powerplay client license cost? Regards, Chandran

Hi, I wanted to know if we can publish a Powerplay cube into Cognos 8 BI server with out the poweplay enterprise server in place. I just have cubes developed out of a standalone Powerplay transformer edition. Now to use it in Analysis Studio how do i Publish the cube? Can it be done via Cognos...

CognosChicago, Thanks for your valuable information. U were right. We plan to build mulitple cubes providing drilling features or drilling from cubes to reports to show details. However i was just trying to build a prototype cube with possible dimensions to check its feasibility and performance...

Thanks Cognos Chicago Yes the users need to haave a look at different dates. The data deals with Insurance information and Claim details where multiple dates need to be shown. So I guess i need to go for multiple date dimensions! And is there any limitations to number of date dimensions and in...

Hi, I wanted to know whats the best strategy to have mulitple date fields in a cube? Should we go for a date dimension for each date field or store it as only a category? The input data source is not a data warehouse so there is no date dimension in the input feed as well, it just exists as a...

Hi John, Thank you very much for posting the macro.

Thanks CognosChicago. The information is really useful.

Hi John, Can you post the whole macro which takes care of formatting. Am new to working with Macros and one of my clients is having similar problem of saving the report with header in Impromptu version 7.1. Thanks

arwol, There is another way of tweaking this problem in report studio. Specify the minimum no of digits properties of your currency data format as your max currency field length(the field length of the max value thats there in your report field) and specify the padding character as a single...

Hi, I have a question on if we can drill down from one cube to another cube in Cognos Powerplay? Can anyone help me out onthe steps involved in doing this stuff?

Hi All, I need some help in saving the impromptu reports developed in version 7.1 in Excel 2003. Right now when I save the reports the header of the report doesnot show up in the Excel. Is there a way of including the header in Excel?