Page Breaking is a useful feature to offer report consumers. However, it’s often difficult to do this if the item you want to break on is dynamic. Here we show you how to do this with cascading, optional prompts while page breaking on the lowest level chosen.
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How to Implement a Dynamic Page Break Using an Optional Filter
October 27, 2009 By Susan Ma
Filed Under: Newsletter, Tech Tips Tagged With: IBM Cognos 8, Report Studio, Techniques, Tips, Tricks
How to Enhance Text Box Prompts in IBM Cognos 8 with On-The-Fly Validation
One of the issues with using text box prompts is the possibility of receiving incorrect, misspelled, or non-existent entries. This allows the report to run and return unexpected data. Recognizing this, a user would have to return to the prompt page to re-enter values into the text box prompt. Wouldn’t it be nice if there… Read More »
Filed Under: Newsletter, Tech Tips Tagged With: Cognos 8, IBM, Javascript, Prompting, Techniques, Tips
