Foundational techniques to create user-friendly Cognos Active Reports. View the webinar video recording and download this deck: http://www.senturus.com/resources/creating-user-friendly-cognos-active-reports/. Building on our Active Report training, our experts showcase hands-on techniques. This presentation shows how to: 1) Create breadcrumbs in reports, allowing users to easily navigate to and from different levels of detail within a single, stand-alone Active Report; 2) Enable two-way interactivity between report objects, allowing flexible navigation at either the parent or the child object; 3) Explore causal relationships within the data and 4) Understand how report bursting can be implemented to deliver different views of the same report to different recipients, streamlining report management and optimizing report execution and delivery. Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.

1. ADVANCEDACTIVEREPORTSIBM Cognos Report Studio

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3. Resource Library
Senturus’ whole purpose is to make you successful with Business Analytics. Thus, we offer a series of technology-neutral webinars, training on specific software, demonstrations, and no-holds-barred reviews of new software releases. We host dozens of live webinars every year and we offer a comprehensive library of recorded webinars, demos, white papers, presentations and case studies on our website--a wealth of learning resources. Most of our content is custom created and constantly updated, so visit us often to see what’s new in the industry.
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4. •Welcome and Introduction
•Advanced Active Report Demonstration:
–Use Tabbed controls to provide summary and detail information in a single report
–Navigate between tabs using display objects
–Cascade controls and provide breadcrumbs to simplify and encourage data exploration
•Report Bursting Demonstration:
–Create a Burst Report and deliver to Mobile recipients
•More Resources
•Q&A
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5. Advanced Active Reports Demonstration by: September Clementin
Senior Instructor
Senturus
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Hosted by:
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Vice President of Learning Solutions
Senturus

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8. Our Team:
Business depth combined with technical expertise. Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors, BI Managers
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Business Intelligence
Enterprise Planning
Predictive Analytics
Creating Clarity from Chaos

9. 750+ CLIENTS, 1500+ PROJECTS, 13+ YEARS
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10. •All demonstrations are based on the standard IBM Cognos 10.2.1 Great Outdoors Sample package
•These exercises are part of what we teach in our classroom, specifically from our brand new Advanced Active Reports Authoring course
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11. TABBEDREPORTINGANDENHANCEDINTERACTIVITY
ADVANCEDACTIVEREPORTS

12. •Enable two-way interactivity between report objects, allowing flexible navigation at either the parent (Tab) or the child (Chart) object
•Create breadcrumbs in your reports, allowing users to easily navigate to and from different levels of detail within a single, stand-alone Active Report
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13. DISTRIBUTEASINGLEREPORTTOMULTIPLEMOBILERECIPIENTS
REPORTBURSTING

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15. •Burst Reports in order to deliver different views of the same report to different recipients, streamlining report management, and optimizing report execution and delivery
•Steps:
1.Define burst recipients
2.Specify burst groups
3.Set burst options
4.Enable bursting
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16. •Types of recipients:
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Recipient example
Recipient type
CAMID(":Canada")
Group
CAMID(":")/contact[@name='Silvano Allessori']
Contact
CAMID(":")/distributionList[@name='European Partners']
Distribution list
CAMID("LDAP_Local_ID:u:uid=gbelding,ou=people")
Authentication provider user or group, where LDAP_Local_IDis the name of an LDAP namespace ID, and people is the name of an organizational unit
user@email.com
Email address

17. ADDITIONALRESOURCES
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18. www.senturus.com
•July 24Choosing the Right Cognos Reporting Tool for the Job
•Aug 7Cognos Dynamic Cubes Techniques
•Aug 14Data Warehouse Best Practices
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19. *Custom, tailored training also available*
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20. Active Reports:
•September 11Authoring Active Reports
•September 12AdvancedActive Reports
Other Report Authoring:
•Report Studio Beginning & Intermediate
•Report Studio Advanced
•Report Studio Expert
•Report Studio Dimensional Authoring Fundamentals
•Report Studio Dimensional Authoring Advanced
•Workspace Advanced Relational Authoring
•Workspace Advanced OLAP Data Exploration
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•First ten people to use it
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