Cognos Analytics

Filters (prompts) tend to take up a lot of valuable space on a report. It is often useful to provide users with the ability to hide and show these filters in a panel. There is a new sample in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 titled Global sales that demonstrates how to use a Block, a Custom Control, and JavaScript to hide and show a panel of filters (Year and Product Line) at the top of the report:



Here is a document that explains step-by-step how we created the sample report.

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Samples

There is a set of samples for Scriptable Reports. The instructions for installing these samples can be found here. 

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Related posts:

• JavaScript support in Interactive Viewer
• Video: Overview: Scriptable reports (11.0.4+)
• New Base Samples for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.7
• Library of How-To Videos for IBM Cognos Analytics

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