Monthly Archives: December 2009

A Tool to Standardize The Look and Feel of Your Reports

By De Hsieh | Published: December 31, 2009
In last month’s Tips and Tricks we discussed how to standardize a “skin” in each of your different Cognos 8 environments. This allowed all users to receive the same look and feel when interacting with Cognos Connection. We’re going to take it one step further and discuss the benefits of using a built-in tool called [...]
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Happy Holidays from The Ironside Group

By De Hsieh | Published: December 22, 2009
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Understanding Star Schema

By Rajesh Mohanasundaram | Published: December 1, 2009
If your house is anything like mine, then it would be called Google.  You have to search to get anything you want.  Even if your house is well organized, to find a book  by title or author you have to sift through the bookcase.  However, if you decide to count all of your books regardless [...]
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How to Standardize Unique Default Skins for Each of Your Different Environments

By Susan Ma | Published: December 1, 2009
Many organizations utilize multiple Cognos environments as part of their development process, such as development, QA and production servers. It is not uncommon for users (especially system administrators and developers) to become confused about which server he/she is working on as all of the environments look the same. (logo, background, font etc). So how can [...]
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