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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: intrepid402 on 23 Apr 2013 01:05:42 PM

Title: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: intrepid402 on 23 Apr 2013 01:05:42 PM
Hi
I would like to add individual data items to each list cells in a list. I am only able to drag and drop columns. If I drag a data item, that data item is being displayed in the entire column, instead, I want it to be displayed in a single cell.

Thank you!
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: tjohnson3050 on 23 Apr 2013 01:07:52 PM
There is an icon that looks like a padlock on the toolbar.  If you click that icon, it will 'unlock' the report and allow you to put more than a single data item in a column.
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: intrepid402 on 23 Apr 2013 01:26:33 PM
Hi TJjohnson!
Thank you for your reply. I did that and I added Data Item 1 in a cell, and the entire column is displaying Data Item 1. I only want data item to be displayed in one specific cell instead of the entire column.
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: blom0344 on 23 Apr 2013 02:41:41 PM
Check out the use of singletons..  (And by the way, this is not a spreadsheet , but a BI tool) combining them with additional header lines within a list
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: intrepid402 on 23 Apr 2013 02:56:27 PM
Hi Blom,
My understanding is that using so many singletons will affect the performance of the report?I am going to have 13 x 12 number of cells.
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: tjohnson3050 on 23 Apr 2013 03:40:21 PM
It sounds like what you want is a cross tab instead of a list.
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: intrepid402 on 23 Apr 2013 03:49:29 PM
Again the problem with that is not all the values are numeric. Half of them are varchar and half of them are numeric.
Title: Re: Adding individual data items to list
Post by: blom0344 on 24 Apr 2013 04:26:07 AM
A table within a list would be another solution, though it requires fetching everything within 1 query (the one associated with the list) Still feel you are trying to mimic a spreadsheet though..