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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: kgcognos on 25 Nov 2014 01:02:20 PM

Title: Rerun Reports Based on Year/Month
Post by: kgcognos on 25 Nov 2014 01:02:20 PM
Hi,

We have standard reports that shows Current Month TY, Current Month LY, YTD TY, YTD LY. We are using the Relative Time Categories from our Sales Cube as our columns. This works fine for the current month lookup only.

We want users to be able to rerun the report based on specific year and month.
I just want to know of different ways or any suggestions on how to set the report up. Can this only be done using Report Studio or is there a way to set something up in Transformer??

Thank you in advance.




Title: Re: Rerun Reports Based on Year/Month
Post by: CognosAnalytics on 25 Nov 2014 01:48:05 PM
Hello kgcognos,
I do not think you can pass anything back to transformer as a parameter and have it recompute the categories. For anything this dynamic in nature you will have to rely on report studio and MDX functions to work with the Month-Year member selected by the user in a prompt.

Let me know if you need assistance with the MDX expressions for each of the categories.
-Cognos810
Title: Re: Rerun Reports Based on Year/Month
Post by: kgcognos on 25 Nov 2014 04:17:44 PM
Thank you for the response. Yes if you could give some documentations on MDX that will be great.