IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook - Second Edition

Customizing classes for report-wide effect

We will now see a best practice to apply standard formatting across the report and save development time at the same time.

Getting ready

Create a new report using the GO Data Warehouse (query) package. Pull multiple crosstabs onto the report page and populate them with valid rows, columns, and measures, similar to the one shown in the following screenshot. Create some drill links as well.

How to do it...

Let's work towards applying some standard formatting across the report. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Page Explorer pane and click on Classes.
2. Locate Crosstab member cell from the Global