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18.
Click the new value prompt object in the second table cell and change the Select UI
property to ListBox .
19.
Click the ellipsis button within the Sorting property of the selected prompt object, and
in the Sorting dialog box, drag Month (numeric) from the Data Items pane to the Sort
List pane. Click OK .
This property will sort the months in the prompt control from January to December.
Otherwise, the months will be sorted alphabetically.
20.
Click the page body background and center all the content on the page by clicking the
Center button on the toolbar.
21.
Click the footer background and center all the footer content on the page by clicking the
Center button again. All the prompt page action buttons will be centered on the page too.
22.
Click any of the table cells and click the Select Ancestor button. Select the Ta b l e
object.
NOTE There is a new feature in Cognos 10 that can be used instead of the Select
Ancestor button in this situation. You could have clicked on the three red dots in the upper-
left corner of the table object.
23.
Change the Margin property to add 15 pixels of bottom margin.
24.
Run the report to test the prompts. Verify that the prompt page resembles Figure 4.8.
Figure 4.8
Ye a r a n d m o n t h p r o m p t
25.
Close the IBM Cognos Viewer window after verifying that the report runs.
Step 10: Create the City Prompt
Now that you have filtered the report for a specific month, you will prompt the report consumer
for the time frame as well as the city.
 
 
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