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Step 5: Add Prompts and Titles to the Report
The parameter names that you use in this step need to match the parameters used in the previous
report because the template is assuming that the parameters are the same. You may see an addi-
tional prompt page if the parameter names do not match.
1.
In the
Explorer Bar
, mouse over the
Query Explorer
tab and select the
Training_by_Manager
query.
2.
In the
Detail Filters
pane of the work area, double-click the filter for
Ye a r
.
3.
Replace
2007
with
?Selected Year?
. The expression should look like this:
[Employee training (query)].[Time].[Year] = ?Selected Year?
NOTE
The parameters you add here need to match the ones created in the first report.
This will allow us to quickly merge the reports together in the briefing book at the end of this
chapter.
4.
Va l i d a t e t h e e x p r e s s i o n a n d c l i c k
OK
to close the Detail Filter Expression dialog box.
5.
When prompted, type
2007
for the year.
6.
Double-click the filter for
Month
.
7.
Replace
'April'
with
?Selected Month?
. The expression should look like this:
[Employee training (query)].[Time].[Month] = ?Selected Month?
8.
Click
OK
to close the Detail Filter Expression dialog box.
9.
Double-click the filter for
Organization name
.
10.
Replace
'Finance'
with
?Selected Organization?
. The expression should look like this:
[Organization name] = ?Selected Organization?
11.
Click
OK
to close the Detail Filter Expression dialog box.
12.
From the
Run
menu, select
Run Report - HTML
to test your report.
When prompted, select
April
,
Finance
, and
2007
. The report output should have num-
bers similar to those shown in Figure 3.22.
13.
Close
IBM Cognos Viewer
to return to your report design.
14.
Save the report as
Training by Manager
.
This report showed how templates can be used by report authors to reuse formatting across
reports. Like the global styles, the IBM Cognos BI administrator could add this template so that it
would appear in the new report dialog box for every user.
