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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: davephall on 21 Aug 2009 10:29:37 AM

Title: Keeping the parent on drill down operations
Post by: davephall on 21 Aug 2009 10:29:37 AM
Hi there,

At present, I've got a report built on a powercube, with the default drill-down operation being that when I click on a parent, this is replaced by all it's children, for instance, when I click:

Finance                           
10
This is replaced with:
Financial Accounts
5
Management Accounts
5

Does anyone know of a workaround wherein when I click:

Finance                           
10
This is replaced with:
Finance                           
10
   Financial Accounts
5
   Management Accounts
5

Much in the same way that drilling behaves when editing in express mode?

Thanks in advance.

Dave.
Title: Re: Keeping the parent on drill down operations
Post by: uttam.mistry on 21 Aug 2009 02:19:05 PM
this should help:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3442&context=SS9RTN&context=SSWGNW&q1=parent+child+report&uid=swg21370748&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en
Title: Re: Keeping the parent on drill down operations
Post by: davephall on 24 Aug 2009 05:59:27 AM
That's pretty close to what I was after, I should be able to bash that into doing the job. Thanks for that.

Dave.
Title: Re: Keeping the parent on drill down operations
Post by: hpmkruit on 03 Sep 2009 07:59:13 AM
Another way is to insert a member when having the Create set for Members option and Insert Member with chidren option on. This way you insert a member with its children and automaticly create a total field.

This results in:

Child1             5
Child2             5
TotalChildren    10

This works for every subsequent level.
Title: Re: Keeping the parent on drill down operations
Post by: david.stachon on 03 Sep 2009 01:41:12 PM
hpmkruit, I'm intrigued ....if you get a chance, can you provide an example of doing this? I'm not totally clear on what you mean.

Title: Re: Keeping the parent on drill down operations
Post by: hpmkruit on 07 Sep 2009 04:48:50 AM
Could you be more precise as to what you don't understand?