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Title: Converting PPXs to Report Studio reports
Post by: michaelsl on 15 Oct 2008 11:59:35 AM
Anyone have any suggestions or best practices for converting PPXs to Report Studio reports?

We're considering just rewriting Cognos series 7 PPX reports in Report Studio 8.3 from scratch and trying to make them look similar to the originals.  Looks like the equivalent Powerplay crosstab and chart functionality is available in Report Studio 8.3.  Wondering how best to replace the PPX style hierarchical prompting.  We use a lot of prompts with our reports.  Any suggestions?  Doesn't look like value prompts or tree prompts provide exactly the same functionality as prompts in PPX reports.  Are there some good techniques for replacing the PPX style prompts with some kind of user friendly prompts in Report Studio?  Any other tips on switching reports from PPXs to Report Studio reports?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Converting PPXs to Report Studio reports
Post by: josepherwin on 16 Oct 2008 08:51:50 AM
upgrade to Cognos 8.4

All you need to do is to click a button that will upgrade your ppx reports to Report Studio
Title: Re: Converting PPXs to Report Studio reports
Post by: tish1 on 17 Oct 2008 05:32:55 AM
Do you need PowerPlay Studio for this or is a standard BI installation in 8.4 sufficient?
Title: Re: Converting PPXs to Report Studio reports
Post by: welmania on 24 Jun 2009 07:17:18 AM
Quote from: josepherwin on 16 Oct 2008 08:51:50 AM
upgrade to Cognos 8.4

All you need to do is to click a button that will upgrade your ppx reports to Report Studio

What button ?