IBM Cognos Introduction to Active Reports Training

PT16882
Training Summary
This IBM Cognos training course is designed to help you to build high quality finish reports in Cognos Report Studio, specifically IBM Cognos Active Reports. Cognos Active Reports provide an interactive analytics experience in a self-contained application for browsing and exploring data offline.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should have attended the Report Studio Introductory training course. Further practice or completion of the Introductory Course or attended an Advanced authoring course is recommended. An understanding of your Business needs would be helpful.
Duration
1 Day/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is designed for business authors who are required to develop active reports for use by their business.
Course Topics
Obtain an Overview of Active Reports, workshops are used throughout.
  • Review the content of an Active report and associated controls
  • Convert Report Studio reports to active reports.
  • Review Active Report properties.
  • Using Filters and selects within Active reports.
  • Using/Amending Active controls and Variables
  • Applying Static & Dynamic Controls
  • Reviewing the use of decks and cards and applying animation
  • Understanding which properties to use in active reports
  • Creating Connections and defining interactive controls
  • Creating Cascading Prompts
  • Understanding and configuration of master-detail relationships
  • Highlighting Exceptional data
  • Drill through reports
  • Hints and Tips
  • Using Tabs and Data Tabs
  • Troubleshooting Techniques
  • iPad Considerations
  • Consolidation Workshops
  • Recap – Q/A and course review/feedback

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