Ensuring consistent object alignment in HTML and PDF outputs
Hints on authoring reports that align report objects and display consistently in both HTML and PDF output

Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server Full Text Searching in Cognos 8
This document describes how to implement Microsoft SQL Server Full Text indexing and how it can be leveraged to allow free text searches within Cognos 8 via Report Studio prompts.

Drill Up-Down
How Member Sets and Advanced Drill behaviours can be leveraged within Report Studio. Descriptions and examples of the advanced drill behaviours are provided.

Using the AT and FOR Options with Relational Summary Functions
How to use the AT and FOR to control the aggregate behavior of relational summary functions. These allow the scope/grouping (regular aggregates) and the level of pre-aggregation to be set (running aggregates). A crosstab running-total example is supplied.

Image Indicators in a Crosstab
How to unlock the contents of your crosstab fact cells to include an image. The image is conditionally displayed based on the data included in the crosstab and can be used as a metric indicator for the measure values.

Creating Dynamic Analysis Studio Type Reports in Report Studio Part-2
This document expands on part-1 and demonstrates some of the techniques used in making the report more dynamic. Member Sets

Creating Dynamic Analysis Studio Type Reports in Report Studio Part-1
This is part 1 of a technique that demonstrates how to replicate Analysis Studio report functionality in Report Studio.

Hide In-Body Prompts
Using Javascript to collapse or expand an HTML div block to hide or show a set of prompts within rendered HTML output.

Using a Crosstab to Produce Gantt Charts
This document outlines how to create Gantt charts

Upload Local File Picklist Values
The attached document uses asp and javascript to upload a local file from the user's computer to populate a value prompt within a report.

Using a Local File in a ReportNet Report
This document shows how a client can join a local file to an existing datasource and perform real time reporting.

Reporting from Planning Applications using CRN
Start to Finish considerations for reporting from Planning data based on Cognos Planning v7.3 with Cognos ReportNet v1.1 and PowerPlay v7.3.

Metric Studio Bulk Diagram Creation
This document explains how to create

Report Studio Workshop - Maps
An outline of Map properties such as Points

Query Studio Workshop - Creating Multilingual Titles
A review of the Query Studio capabilities for creating reports with multilingual titles and sub-titles.

Report Studio Workshop - Tabbed Prompt Report
A technique to improve performance of reports using many optional prompts. The isolation of the prompts into seperate tabs allows the processing to be split and allow the first set of prompts to be displayed more quickly to end users.

Cognos pm2Rapid-Scorecard Service
Transform your business strategy into action with this workshop. Highlight your strategic objectives, identify key indicators and measures, and set up a pilot scorecard to monitor results.

Cognos 8 BI - Report Authoring Part 2
a three--day, instructor-led course designed for professional report authors. Through hands-on workshops, you will learn advanced techniques for creating, modifying, and distributing professional reports using Report Studio and Cognos Connection. In particular, you will examine and create query models, burst reports, examine and edit XML report specifications, set up drill-through access, and author advanced reports. You will also learn to manage an event in Event Studio. This includes managing the task execution rules, creating a schedule for an agent, and working with agents in Cognos Connection.

Cognos BI Report Authoring Offshore Service
Meet your report authoring requirements in the most cost-effective, accelerated manner possible. Through a combination of onshore and offshore consulting services, Cognos delivers a high quality offering with lower blended hourly cost.

Cognos BI Report Migration Offshore Service
Meet your report migration requirements in the most cost-effective, accelerated manner possible. Through a combination of onshore and offshore consulting services, Cognos delivers a high quality offering with lower blended hourly cost.

Cognos BI Implementation Roadmap
Part of the Congos Solutions Implementation Methodology, this roadmap is your step-by-step guide for completing a successful BI implementation.

Maximizing the Value of Analysis Studio
Cognos 8 BI Analysis Studio contains many features that take users beyond simple data exploration to discovering results. This session focuses on the richer analytical features of Analysis Studio—including understanding the details, dealing with sparse data and effective analytical charts. You will learn how to share the results of an analysis with Report Studio and how to customize these analytical reports to meet the needs of your organization.

Dimensional Expression Advanced Report Authoring Best Practices
Ever need to write Report Studio reports against cube or dimensionally modeled relational data? Want to know how to leverage the OLAP query language, MDX, to get the results you want? This session will introduce MDX concepts as they apply to Cognos 8 Report Studio and demonstrate solutions to common OLAP reporting requirements using MDX. You’ll also discover what a “tuple” is, how you pronounce it, and why anyone would care.

Report Design and Makeovers
Need some quick tips and best practices on how to create attractive yet informative reports? Attend this Web seminar and learn techniques that can be applied to either Impromptu or Report Studio to create readable and interesting reports. Learn how to apply layout rules, what questions to ask to make a report more informative, and tips for being more productive with Report Studio.

Cognos 8 Reporting & Event Management for ReportNet Customers
This event will show how Cognos 8 takes the capabilities of ReportNet to new levels. You will learn how users can conditionally deliver reports rather than just to schedule, how to provide report summaries in the portal and how to alert administrators if a report fails to run.

Using "Skins" to Customize Your ReportNet or Cognos 8 BI Interface
Most Cognos customers customize the user interface of their application to match their corporate branding. In this session, we will explore the concept of Skins as well as learn the best practices of customizing the end user interface of Cognos 8 BI using skins. The principles explored apply equally to Cognos ReportNet. This session will also include a live demonstration of how to build a brand new skin.

Regent Medical: Best Practices for Creating Sophisticated Business Reports
This Cognos customer led Web seminar will show how Regent Medical went from a manual process of extracting and formatting data to sophisticated business reports with Cognos ReportNet created in a fraction of the time. Based on one of the most popular sessions at the June 2005 Cognos Forum, in this session you will learn how the BI experts at Regent Medical saved 300 hours of report preparation time by implementing ReportNet. You will learn best practices for automating the process of creating, bursting and emailing business reports to field reps with no manual intervention.

Cognos ReportNet - Report Design Technical Tips & Techniques
Is Report Design part of your responsibilities? Join us for this web seminar and learn the Cognos best practices for Report Building using Cognos products. Specifically, gain enhanced understanding of overcoming common roadblocks for efficient design, including; Impromptu practices that are incompatible with ReportNet, local performance issues with cross-product queries, splitting and merging cells to ensure accurate layouts, and more.

New Release in Action (Cognos Series 7, Version 4)
This on demand webinar will show you the highlights of the newly released Series 7, Version 4 (7.4) in action. Note, this seminar will be a refresher for customers who attended "What's New in Series 7 Version 4" sessions at Cognos Forum in June, 2006 and will provide a look at the new Series 7 BI capabilities for those who did not.

Cognos 8 Scorecarding for ReportNet Customers
This event will demonstrate how Cognos 8 Scorecarding is a natural extension to your Cognos Reporting applications. You will learn: how to embed live Cognos BI (reports, dashboards, analysis, etc.) in your scorecard, how to create and track key initiatives to improve performance and how to set up a "watchlist" that enables users to quickly set up alerts on their own.

Cognos 8 Reporting & Analysis for ReportNet Customers
This event will show how Cognos 8 takes the capabilities of ReportNet to new levels. You will learn how business users can put custom highlighting into adhoc queries; how to provide fully formatted reports with automatic drill-down and drill-up sourced from from OLAP or dimensionally modeled relational data and how to prepare *My Pages* centrally for use by multiple users

Cognos Series 7 Version 4 Preview
Learn about Cognos' ongoing commitment to Series 7 and how this relates to the Cognos 8 product line. Understand the timeline for the next major release of Series 7, Version 4 (7.4) and see a few of the highlights that are planned for this release. Learn how and when to sign-up to participate in the beta testing of Series 7 Version 4.

Cognos Office Connection
Cognos Office Connection allows organizations to deliver the BI benefits of trusted data and information management to users in spreadsheet reporting environments. Join members of the Cognos product team as they highlight how, using Office Connection, Excel users can access BI from Excel; how they can import relevant BI content for desktop analysis. Accuracy and confidence in data is insured through the live and intelligent data connection, with the ability to refresh spreadsheet content interactively. See how management of the spreadsheet reporting environment is achieved through the Cognos BI solution.

Cognos BI and your SAP environment
Join us for this Web Seminar on integrating your existing ReportNet deployment with SAP NetWeaver. Hear how other Cognos customers are easily combining data from their heterogeneous systems (including SAP BW and non-SAP BW sources) with ReportNet -- providing self service access, report bursting and distribution, and flexible formatting. Learn how you can leverage your existing SAP BW data infrastructure, integrate with your SAP security and deploy into your SAP Enterprise Portal implementation.

Filtering with MDX OLAP Functions in Report Studio
This article describes how to use Cognos MDX OLAP dimension functions to achieve advanced filtering on OLAP cube data source in Cognos 8 Report Studio. The business scenario below demonstrates how to use dimension functions like member() as key building blocks in crosstab report development.

Dynamically Displaying The User Name In Report Studio (Cognos 8 BI)
This technique shows you how, in Cognos 8 BI, you can display the user name of the user running the report in the report header. Note: In Cognos 8 BI, the name of the user is added to Cognos Viewer by default.

Creating MTD Cumulative Summary Crosstab Report
Learn to create a month to date (MTD) cumulative summary crosstab report, which shows running 12-month totals of a measure for a relational model. This can be achieved by using a running-total function, but in some cases it may not work in the expected way. This technique is useful if the report involves different levels of grouping.

Meaningful Design for More Effective Dashboards
A successful dashboard is akin to an airplane cockpit. The information may be different, but each interface guides users through a series of logical steps: perception, understanding, action.

Close, Consolidate, and Report
This Blueprint helps companies quickly address gaps and weaknesses in the financial close process, make focused investments, and optimize the use of technology.

Group Consolidation and Corporate Reporting
This Blueprint streamlines the close, consolidate, and reporting process. It keeps reporting numbers for European IFRS in one place, in the same format, for faster, more reliable management and regulatory reporting.

Best Practices in Data Visualization: Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information
Read the first of three original white papers by renowned data visualization expert Stephen Few. Discover the link between visual perception and understanding, and learn practical techniques you can use to communicate your data more clearly.

Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information
In the second of our series of original white papers, data visualization expert and educator Stephen Few examines the patterns and relationships common in most business reports (rank, part-to-whole, deviation, correlation, etc.) and provides practical guidelines for communicating these relationships effectively using points, lines, and bars. A richly illustrated and detailed work.

Cognos 8 BI Multidimensional Report Authoring
A two-day, instructor-led course in which students will learn multidimensional concepts and how to apply multidimensional techniques to reports.

Cognos 8 BI What's New for Report Authors
A two-day, instructor-led course designed for professional report authors who have experience using Cognos ReportNet and want to learn how to use the new features in Cognos 8.