IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

Horizontal pagination

This feature is made available only from version 8.4. It is very useful for printing a very wide report and hence this recipe will show you how to use it.

Earlier Cognos used to fit all report columns in one report width. Hence, in spite of selecting Landscape orientation, some very wide reports had to be sized down, leaving them difficult to read. Now, we can choose to span the columns across pages and hence keep the size intact and readable.

Getting ready

We will use the report created in previous recipe for this. In order to mimic that the report can't fit in one page width; we will change the PDF Page Setup to the following:

How to do it...

1. Open the report in Report Studio.
2. Select the List object using ancestor button.
3. From ...