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The document compares Report Net and Cognos 8, noting that Cognos 8 includes additional studio types and can publish Powerplay cubes, whereas Report Net cannot publish cubes. It also notes that cross tab reports cannot be burst in Cognos 8. To create a dynamic column in Cognos 8, one adds a data item to the underlying query, defines an expression for the column label, changes the column label property to use the data item value, and sets the data item property. A drill-through report links a master report to detail data for a selected item, while a cascading report uses values from a previous prompt to filter options in the current prompt, allowing filtering within a single report.

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Cognos Questions

The document compares Report Net and Cognos 8, noting that Cognos 8 includes additional studio types and can publish Powerplay cubes, whereas Report Net cannot publish cubes. It also notes that cross tab reports cannot be burst in Cognos 8. To create a dynamic column in Cognos 8, one adds a data item to the underlying query, defines an expression for the column label, changes the column label property to use the data item value, and sets the data item property. A drill-through report links a master report to detail data for a selected item, while a cascading report uses values from a previous prompt to filter options in the current prompt, allowing filtering within a single report.

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What are the major differences in Report Net and Cognos 8?

1) Comparing with Reportnet Cognos 8 have Analysis Studio Metric Studio Event Studio.
2) The cube which is created in Cognos Powerplay Transformer can be published in Cognos 8 where as we cannot publish in Reportnet.
3) The cross tab report cannot be bursted in Cognos 8
4) Some new templates has been added in Cognos 8.

How do you a create a dynamic column in Cognos 8?

1. add a data item to the query(the query on which the report is based)
2. define an expression which u want to use for the dynamic column label
3. from the report page click on the column label
4. from properties pane look for "column label" the default would be "data item label/name" change that to "data item value"
5. in the same pane change the "data item" property to have the data item that u created for the column label.

What is the difference between a cascading report and drill-thru report?why do we go for drill thru report?

Drill Through is used to link the master & detail reports.


After putting drill through if you click on a link (e.g. Order ID 1234) in the master report then the details will be displayed for that particular item
(Order ID 1234).

Cascading prompt uses the value from the previous prompt to filter the value in the current prompt.

For Cascading no need of two reports.If a report having two related columns (e.g. Country & States),then we can cascade these two columns by
adding two value prompts.

If you select a country (e.g INDIA),in the next prompt all the states will be displayed those which are under INDIA.

If you want to see the details for the state Tamilnadu,then select TN from the list which will display all the details for TN.

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