More than 80 great recipes to take control Learn Cognos 8 Report Studio advanced techniques to produce a report that meets real-life business needs Tricks and hacks for quick and easy development of reports and to overcome the limitations of equipment Peek-based best practices used in the industry and understand how to work like a pro portion of the series Packt's Cookbook recipe-each is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible In Detail Cognos Report Studio is widely used for creating and managing business reports in the medium to large companies. However, when he came to develop a more sophisticated, fully functional business reports to a wider audience, the author of the report will need guidance. Then go up to the advanced techniques and tricks to overcome Studio limitations.Develop excellent dimensional reports using the data source by following the best practices that require development work in Report Studio. Learn the techniques and hacks to make the best of your Cognos 8 Report Studio What you will learn from this book Learn basic and advanced options of sorting, filtering, and data aggregation Explore the advanced features-Conditional Formatting Report Studio, Cascade recommendation, detailed query the Master, and Achieve real business demands more, such as dynamic drill-though link, displaying tooltips, column width minimum, prompt manipulation, and merged Learn to edit a cell outside the Report Studio report using an XML editing tool limitations Develop advanced printer friendly report Overcoming such as row-level formatting, timing of the report, the handling of lost images, and so on tips Learn at the time of development Introduce best practices such as inserting comments, regression testing, and version control features in your report Improving Studio Report using macros Working with the model dimension (DMRs and Cubes) Approach Written in the style of recipe books, this book offers lessons and techniques through a prescription. It contains the instructions step-by-step to the user 8 Report Studio to report an effective writer. Who is this book written for If you are a Business Intelligence or MIS Developer (programmer) is working on Cognos Report Studio report's authors want to impress by putting to use what tools are on offer, this book is for you. You also may be a Business Analyst or Power Users who author their own reports and wanted to look beyond the conventional features of Studio 8 report. This book assumes that you can do basic authoring, aware of the architecture of Cognos, and familiar with Studio.