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IBM Cognos Business Insight supports report objects that contain prompts, drill
through, and drill up and down.
There are several properties and style settings that you can specify to customize
the widget interface. You can also enable interactivity and communication between
widgets on the workspace.
Do more with Business Insight Advanced
You can perform advanced editing actions on report content by clicking the do
on the top right corner of the report widget toolbar. The report is
more button
opened in IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced. Within Business Insight
Advanced, you can change the report content and apply more advanced sorting,
filtering, calculations, and summaries. You can also add a list, crosstab, or chart,
and format the report to enhance its appearance. Documenting the options and
actions available in Business Insight Advanced is outside the scope of this User
Guide. For more information, see the Business Insight Advanced User Guide.
Report versions
If there are multiple report output versions saved in HTML format in the content
store, you can view the saved report output versions or view the live version of
the report. By default, the report displays the latest saved output version. You can
also create watch rules based on specific conditions and thresholds for a given
report version.
Note: Only report versions saved in HTML format are supported in IBM Cognos
Business Insight.
For more information, see “Viewing report versions” on page 84.
Report prompts
A prompt is a report element that asks for parameter values before the report is
run. The resulting report content is filtered based on the parameter values.
If a report contains prompts, you might be prompted to select or enter values
when you add the report to the workspace, depending on the prompt settings that
the report author or system administrator specified.
When you save the workspace, the selected or entered prompt values are also
saved as part of the workspace. When you open a workspace that contains
prompted report objects, the saved prompt values are used and you are not
required to re-enter the prompt values.
If you refresh the workspace or the report widget, the report objects run, and the
most recent live data or saved output is retrieved from the content store. You are
not required to re-enter any prompt values for any prompted report content. The
saved prompt values are used.
You can change the prompt values for report content regardless of the default
prompt settings that are specified for the report. The report is run and live data is
filtered and returned based on the selected prompt value or values. For more
information, see “Changing the prompt values in a report” on page 74.
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IBM Cognos Express Version 10.1.0: Business Insight User Guide