You set the report options to make changes to your analysis in preparation for distributing it in different formats.
Report options apply when you run an analysis in Cognos Viewer or open an analysis in Report Studio. These settings are not visible in the work area of Analysis Studio.
Note: When you run an analysis in Cognos Viewer after selecting the Outermost groups on rows option under Page breaks on the Display tab in the Report options dialog box, the outer nesting group is always expanded and any calculations are not shown.
| Tab | Purpose |
| Title | Specify a title or subtitle. |
| Display | Specify whether and where to show the cube
update information and filter criteria. Define page breaks. Expand the values in More to show all the details. |
| Paper | Set paper orientation and paper size if the output format is PDF. |
| Report Template | Specify a template. |
Open the analysis.
From the Run menu, click Report Options.
Change the values that meet your reporting needs and click OK.
Use page breaks to show different occurrences of data on each page shown in Cognos Viewer. For example, you have a crosstab that shows all products sold by your company, where the outermost rows are grouped by product line. You can specify a page break to show the details for each product line on a separate page when you run a report in Cognos Viewer.
The page break settings are ignored if the analysis contains no corresponding groups or context items.
The page break options do not apply to charts. Charts appear on a single page.
From the Run menu, click Report Options.
On the Page tab under Page breaks, choose a type of page break:
To insert a page break at the outermost rows, select the Outermost groups on rows check box.
To insert a page break at each child member of a selected context item, select the Context item check box. You can only use one context item. If the Context section of the overview area contains more than one item, click the context item you want from the drop-down list under Context item.
Note: Analysis Studio inserts one page break for each child member of the selected context item. For example, if you click the Order Method context item in the drop-down list, the pages will break at Fax, Telephone, Mail, and so on.
Click OK.
Tip: To specify default page breaks, clear all the check boxes.
You can apply a template to your analyses to give them the same look. For example, you can use a template to customize page headers and footers and to display a company logo.
Analysis Studio templates must be created in Report Studio before they can be applied. For more information, see the Report Studio User Guide.
Note: Templates created in previous versions of Cognos 8 may not be compatible with Analysis Studio.
Open the analysis that you want in Analysis Studio.
From the Run menu, click Report Options.
On the Report Template tab, click Apply Template and then click Select a template.
Locate the template you want to apply, click it and then click Open.
Click OK.
If you want to remove any custom formatting previously added to the report, select the Reset all styles to template defaults check box.
Click OK.
The template is applied when the analysis is run in Cognos Viewer.
To remove a template, on the Report Template tab, click Use Default Template.
You can modify how special characters such as nulls, division by zero and overflows appear in Analysis Studio. For example, you can change the default format for cell values that contain division by zero from /0 to ----.
Open the analysis that you want in Analysis Studio.
From the Settings menu, click Data Format.
In the Data format dialog box, under General properties, click a property and type in the characters you want to use for that property.
Click OK.
To revert to the original format, click Reset.