Cognos provides a lot of visualizations to use. But I find very little information on how to use them (what data to map to the various attributes fields or suggested file/query layouts to create to use them). There are some articles, but usually for the simple visualizations. I jotted down a few of the various attributes needed to make some of the visualizations work. Some have common names some don't. Are there any guidelines on how or what to use when mapping fields from a query to the various visualization attributes like the ones below? Each pair of {} are for attributes needed for a particular type of visualization.
1 - {bars, length, color}
2 - {bubble, size, color, extra data}
3 - {rows, columns, points, heat, size, extra data}
4 - {x-axis, color, y-axis, extra data}
5 - {bars, length, width, color, extra data}
I'm looking for something that would say something like, 'usually color takes a type xxxx field and represents yyyyyy.' Usually extra data takes type xxxx field and represents yyyyyy. xxxx meaning type (numeric, alpha, unique or non-unique and yyyyy for whatever it represents).
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jerome roberts
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