Cognos New Features for Experienced Authors
In this course you will learn to
- Create list, crosstab and visual reports
- Sort and group lists and crosstabs
- Focus reports using filters and prompts
- Create calculations
- Use conditional formatting to highlight exceptional data
- Work with dimensionally modeled relational and dimensional data sources
- Examine advanced layout features
- Migrate content
Version
11.x
Included in this course
- Hands-on exercises
- Course manual
- Certified ADA section 508 compliant (self-paced)
Suggested attendees
Technical users with prior report development experience in Cognos 8 or 10.
Course Outline
- Discuss new features of Cognos Analytics 11.x
- Cognos overview; review items to look out for before migrating
- Browser, OS, mobile, and data source support
- JavaScript
- Portal pages
- Workspaces
- Fundamentals of report authoring
- Discuss how to create reports
- List reports
- Create a list
- Change object formatting
- Sort and group a list
- Crosstabs
- Discuss crosstab properties
- Create a crosstab from a list
- Create a nested crosstab
- Create a visualization in a report
- Review aggregation and when to change it
- Create detail filters on a report
- Focus reports using prompts
- Add calculated columns to the report
- Use conditional formatting to highlight exceptional data
- Work with dimensionally modeled relational and dimensional data sources
- Advanced layout features
- Work with advanced conditional styles
- Layout component references
- Shared sets
- Migrate content
- Migrate content from Cognos 10 to Cognos Analytics
- Large-scale migration
- Migrate a single report using copy-paste
- Distribute and automate reports
- Distribute and automate reports
- Navigate the portal
- Understand how to share and embed reports
- Create subscriptions and set preferences
- Manage the environment using
- Accounts
- Activities
- Content
- Data servers
- Configuration
- Custom themes
- Classic administration console
