by Abhishek Sanghani | Released September 2017 | ISBN: 9781788296557

Breaking boundaries of Dashboards with Advanced authoringAbout This VideoA comprehensive guide that will teach you about this fullfledged Report Authoring toolPractical approach to teach you how to create tabbed dashboard and stories using the new Dashboard toolShows you how to secure your data with advanced filtersIn DetailCognos Analytics is the latest version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and brings IBM right back into the game against new-age competitors such as QlikView and Tableau. This next-generation, sleek, unified tool provides end users, power-users, and IT professional with a fast, intent-driven dashboard and report-authoring interface on top of the strong foundation that IBM Cognos has provided over decades. This course focuses on the advanced aspects of Dashboard creation and, assuming you have already done the dashboard course, starts with the rapid development of a tabbed dashboard, then moves on to the creation of stories and finally the distribution and maintenance of Dashboards. The course also explains the limitations of the Dashboarding tool and shows how to mitigate them in the report development tool. It is completely dedicated to Cognos Analytics – Reporting, the advanced report authoring tool.The philosophy behind this course is that professional report authoring and dashboard development require you to use the full-fledged report development tool offered by Cognos v11. Going further you will master the Report Tool interface and learn how to create a report dashboard l using simple objects (for beginners). Then you quickly move on to advanced topics to overcome the limitations of Dashboard tool such as drill-through, prompt manipulation, advanced data formatting, making the dashboards printable, conditional highlighting, and more.This course is designed to be complementary to the Report Studio v10 book and video course, and also complementary to Cognos Analytics v11 Dashboards for Power Users and Authors. It does not replace any of those books or courses Show and hide more

1. Chapter 1 : Reports Versus Dashboards
   • The Course Overview 00:03:06
   • Printability 00:03:48
   • Crosstabs 00:06:05
   • Detailed Properties of Visualizations 00:03:15
   • Drill-Through to Another Report 00:03:24
   • Master-Detail Relationship/Repeaters 00:03:37
2. Chapter 2 : Reporting Interface
   • Opening the Report Interface 00:07:36
   • Adding Data 00:07:23
   • Adding Report Pages and Prompt Pages 00:06:52
   • Toolbox 00:14:17
3. Chapter 3 : Crosstabs and SQL Queries
   • Crosstab in Detail 00:14:25
   • Nested Crosstab 00:08:37
   • Discontinuous Crosstab 00:04:20
   • Examining and Overriding SQL Queries 00:03:55
4. Chapter 4 : Filtering
   • Populating Values in Prompt Control 00:08:33
   • Using Prompt Parameters 00:04:58
   • Mandatory and Optional Prompts 00:05:06
   • Cascading Prompt 00:05:58
   • Prompts on Report Page 00:04:16
5. Chapter 5 : Visualizations
   • Difference between Charts and Extensible Visualizations 00:05:48
   • Heatmap Visualization 00:07:35
   • Gauge Control 00:08:34
   • Sparkline 00:05:05
6. Chapter 6 : Drill-Through and Master-Detail Relationship
   • Container within Container 00:09:59
   • Drill-Through to Another Report (Drill-Through Links) 00:15:10
   • Finishing Touches 00:16:24
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