Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (C8 BI)

Report Studio

What is C8 BI Report Studio?

Using C8 BI Report Studio, you can create reports that cover the entire range of
enterprise reporting requirements. You can write a report once and distribute it to
many users in multiple languages and formats.
Connecting to C8 Report Studio

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1. On the Start page, double-click the C8 Report Studio icon

2. Once the application is finished resetting, a browser will launch the

following URL: http://localhost/cognos8

3. If prompted to logon, the User ID is: Administrator, there is no password,

and click OK

4. In the top-right corner click the Report Studio link

Create a New Report

1. Select the GO Sales and Retailers package

2. Select Create a new report or template

3. Select the Map format from the report, and click OK

4. We are going to compare the revenue by country for the whole world, so
we will need to ensure that World is selected for Maps

5. We want to show revenue within each country, so we will need to select

Countries+Territories as the Region layer. Also, since we do not have
a requirement for Point layers or Display layers, they should be left not
selected, as displayed in the screenshot on the following page

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6. Click OK to accept the settings and advance to the following screen

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Adding details to the Region Layer

The Region Layer detail is made up of Color, Location and Color Legend Title.
Color is usually a measure, which drives the layer values. Location is a data item
that binds the data to the chart regions. The bind can only be successful if the
data item values match the names in the chart dictionary. The Color Legend
Title is the text that will appear as the legend title.

1. In the Insertable Objects box, expand Orders, scroll down and then
double-click on Revenue

2. Also in the Insertable Objects box, expand Countries and then double-
click on Country

As soon as the Location has been set, the new element Refine Location
appears. Refine Locations is used to qualify the location where the location
name is not unique. Since we are dealing with unique country names, there is no
need to populate this element.

3. From the menu bar, select Run and from the drop-down, choose Run
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4. To close down the report that was just run select the File menu and click
Close

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Adding details with the Display Layers

Display layers can be added to the map for additional context or to improve the
appearance. These layers do not display actual data. In our report the Ocean
layer is considered a display layer.

1. In Report Studio select the Map and Layers property by right-clicking

on the map and selecting Edit

2. In the Display layers: pane select Oceans and click OK

3. From the menu bar, select Run and from the drop-down, choose Run
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4. To close down the report that was just run, from the File menu select
Close

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Adding Detail with a Map Drill Through

1. In Report Studio select the Drill Throughs property by right-clicking on

the map area and from the drop-down selecting Drill Throughs

2. On the bottom left of the Drill Through dialog box, select the New icon

( )

3. On the top right of the screen next to the Report: field, select the
ellipses …

4. From the available folders double-click on Report Studio Report

Samples and then locate and highlight the MapDetail report

5. In the bottom right of the dialog box select Open

• The Drill Throughs dialog box should now appear as shown:

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6. On the bottom of the Drill Throughs dialog box, select the pencil icon
( )

7. In the Parameters dialog box, change the Method from (Default) to

Pass data item value by selecting it from the drop-down

8. Still within the Parameters dialog box change the Value from a blank to
Country by selecting it from the drop-down

9. Click OK to confirm the changes to the Parameters dialog box

10. Click OK to confirm the changes to the Drill Throughs dialog box

11. From the menu bar, select Run and from the drop-down, choose Run
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12. When the report displays, mouse over and single click on Canada. This
will evoke the drill through to the detail report.

• When the report completes the detail data for Canada should be
displayed

13. To close down the report that was just run from the File menu select
Close

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Now it’s time to log out

1. From the File menu for Report Studio, select Exit

2. Click OK to confirm that you are sure you want to navigate away from
this page

3. Close the remaining browser by selecting Close from the File menu

Congratulations … you have completed this workshop!