Chapter 4. Tips and Tricks: Report Page
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Showing images dynamically (Traffic light report)
- Handling missing image issue
- Dynamic links to external website (Google Map example)
- Alternating drill link
- Showing tool tips on reports
- Achieving minimum column width
- Merged cells in Excel output
- Work sheet name in Excel output
- Changing column titles conditionally
Introduction
In this chapter, I will show you some tricks that I have learnt over the period. As mentioned before in this book, though Cognos Report Studio has some limitations, it does have a flexible structure which allows us to implement some workarounds and overcome the limitations.
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