Contains: PDF course guide, as well as a lab environment where students can work through demonstrations and exercises at their own pace. This course teaches experienced authors advanced report building techniques to enhance, customize, manage, and distribute reports. Additionally, the student will learn how to create highly interactive and engaging reports that can be run offline by creating Active Reports. If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course. Terms and Conditions: Ingram Micro – https://www.ingrammicrotraining.com/Terms-of-use.aspx; IBM – http://www.ibm.com/training/terms

Version:

V11.1x

Audience:

Authors

Objectives:

Detail:

order
? Create a prompt to let users select a display type

Examine the report specification
? Examine report specification flow
? Identify considerations when modifying report specifications
? Customize reporting objects

Distribute reports
? Burst a report to email recipients by using a data item
? Burst a list report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst table
? Burst a crosstab report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst table and a master detail relationship

Enhance user interaction with HTML
? Create interactive reports using HTML
? Include additional information with tooltips
? Send emails using links in a report

Introduction to IBM Cognos Active Reports
? Examine Active Report controls and variables
? Create a simple Active Report using Static and Data-driven controls
? Change filtering and selection behavior in a report
? Create interaction between multiple controls and variables

Active Report charts and decks
? Create an Active Report with a Deck
? Create an Active Report with 11.0 visualizations

Pre-Requisites:

Knowledge of your business requirements Previous experience building reports with IBM Cognos Analytics V11.1.x, or you have taken the IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.1.x) course.