Setting up conditional drill-throughs

IBM Cognos Report Studio allows you to define drill-through. However, there is no facility to define conditional drill-throughs. This recipe will show you how to achieve it.

We will use the report created in the previous recipe for this recipe.

Getting ready

Create two dummy reports called Drill 1 and Drill 2.

Open the report created in the previous recipe in Cognos Report Studio.

How to do it...

In this recipe we will create drill-through from the crosstab intersection to a dummy report (Drill 1). Then, we will try to achieve a conditional drill-through to another report (Drill 2) for certain months. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. First of all, create drill-through from the crosstab intersection to the ...

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