IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

Browsing values from data expression window

This recipe will show you a small feature of Cognos Report Studio that comes very handy and is often overlooked.

Getting ready

We will use the report used in previous recipes for this.

How to do it...

1. Open the report in Report Studio.
2. Say we want this report to show only certain Product lines (hard-coding). For that we want to add a filter on Product Lines. So, add a new detail filter.
3. Now, we are in the filter expression dialog. Enter following expression: [Product Line] in
   
4. As this filter will do literal string comparisons, we need to enter the exact values of the required Product lines. Select the Product ...