Hi i have a set of questions pleas elet me know the answers for that

[raghav1206]

Hi please let me know the answers for the following questions it is very urgent
What is firewall in Cognos architecture and what is its usage?
How to do ranking in a report??
what is layout component referance??
what is layout calculations please explain with example??
dfferance between page break and sections??

[Suraj]

I think these things are nicely explained in the product documentation.

[sys2674]

Hi Here are some ans
Layout Component Reference
A reference to another layout object. Before you can reference an object, its ID property must be
set.

Rank
Returns the rank value of selected data items.
rank ( Sales 98 )

layout calculations
Adds a calculation in the layout that contains run-time
information,
e.g you can get user name,

Regards
Sys2674