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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: cogswell on 31 May 2012 02:40:00 PM

Title: Shortcut Queries in Report Studio
Post by: cogswell on 31 May 2012 02:40:00 PM
Very little is documented about Shortcut Queries in the RS guide, and Google doesn't help much either. I am talking, of course, about the following:

(http://i.imgur.com/Cmg2b.png)

Can someone shed some light on them? I am trying to use them in Report Studio to calculate aggregates (the detail-level data  is stored in the 'data query') and am coming across some double-counting issues, and would like to know if I am doing something I shouldn't.