Chapter 6. Drill-through

In this chapter, we will discuss the Cognos TM1 drill-through functionality with regards to the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (Test COG-310) certification exam. We will go over what it is, how it works, and how to construct an application with drill-through capabilities.

The current certification exam assigns a weightage of 5 percent to this topic.

What is drill-through?

Drill-through can be described as the act of exploring related information. Also, this can be described as the act of moving between related data via a link of some kind. Most specifically, drill-through usually exploits a relationship between master and detail information. By clicking on a master item in the master information, the details of the clicked ...

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