Cognos 8 BI Report Studio Adding Print Button

Cognos 8 BI Report Studio Adding Print Button On Reports Gourav Atalkar Software Engineer bispsolutions. wordpress. com

INDEX • • Report Studio Basics. Report Studio Interface. Creating Sample Report. Adding print button to report.

REPORT STUDIO Report Studio is one of the component of reporting tool in Cognos 8 BI suite which is extensively used for creating simple and advance reports. Report Studio is a Web-based tool that professional report authors use to build sophisticated, multiple-page, multiple-query reports against multiple databases. With Report Studio, you can create any report that your company requires, such as invoices, statements, and weekly sales and inventory reports.

REPORT STUDIO INTERFACE Tool Bar Query Explorer Insertable Object Properties of Objects

REPORT STUDIO INTERFACE Insertable object pane has all the query subjects and query items from framework manager. The Properties pane list the properties of objects in the report creation. The Tool Bar has all the operations that can be performed on the report like group , sort and so on. Query Explorer provided the query generated for the report.

CREATING SAMPLE LIST REPORT Open the Report Studio. Select the New List Report option. From the Insertable Object Pane drag the column(query items) you want in the report to the report page. Run the report by clicking on start button on the Tool Bar. A List report will be generated in a new page.

CREATING SAMPLE LIST REPORT

ADDING PRINT BUTTON TO REPORT A button is a control which is used to initiate an action. When user click on button it trigger an action. Following are the steps for the insertion of print button on the report: Step: 1) From Cognos Connection open Report Studio, In Report studio select the Package for you want to create the report now select the type of report from New tab like List, Cross tab, Chart , Map etc. .

ADDING PRINT BUTTON TO REPORT Step: 2) Insert the columns from insertable object Pane. Step: 3) From Insertable Object Pane drag and drop “HTML ITEM” Into the report. HTML ITEM

ADDING PRINT BUTTON TO REPORT Step: 4) Double Click the html item and write the html code (A code to create button is given below): <input type="button“ on. Click="window. print()“ value="Print This Page"/> Step: 5) Press ‘OK’