Course Description
This 1-day 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.
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Provide an Overview of Active Reports
- Familiarity and usage of Active Report Controls
- Applying interactive behaviour and familiarity with naming conventions and use of variables
- Highlighted good working practice
- Using Decks and Data Decks together with associated cards
- Building Active Reports, several workshops utilised to cover key topic areas
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Course Modules
- 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
Testimonials
“Hands-down the best technical training I have taken! The methods of progressively building reports, adding complexity and features as time goes on, was fantastic.”
- Chris, Cirrus Aircraft
Thoroughly enjoyed the training. The trainer was fantastic! It is rare but always an awesome experience when a trainer is also an experienced practioner with a breadth of knowledge and hands on experience… even well beyond the subject matter at hand. I had the feeling that the trainer could have answered in detail any question we might have had related to not only BDM but Hadoop and other relevant big data topics as well. Time well spent and I hope to encounter Tomi again.
- Rick Kirk, CTO, Alliant Energy / Ernst & Young
“It was a very enjoyable and informative course and we’re all looking forward to using the skills we learnt. We all agreed that the instructor was very good and was able to break down pretty complex issues to make them more understandable”
- Grahame Welch, Head of BI, UK Home Office
