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  • 1.  Some Reporting help to a newbie

    Posted 02/09/22 12:13 PM
    Hello all, I am Peter from Greece.
    I am good with Excel and recently i took an EDX course for Data Analytics from which a chapter was about Cognos which i found really good and i am eager to learn more about it.
    I have uploaded an excel file with fields Date, Customer, Product, Quantity, Revenue.
    What i am trying to do is a report list in which i made two prompts, one for year and one for month.
    This way i can see the sales per customer for a specific month.
    My List has these Fields:
    Customer,Revenue
    So with that logic i see the sales of one month of my choosing for all the customers.
    What i would like to add would be another column which would give me the sales of the same month of previous year.
    Example:
    Customer      Selected Month Revenue     1 year ago same month revenue
    Nick              10000euro                              5000 euro

    In Excel i would just use a sumifs of current date-365 and i would be good to go.
    Here although i checked many videos i didnt get a very good idea what i must do.
    I even splitted my data date to fiscal calendar with all the filters but still i dont have enough knowledge to go by.

    I would appreciate a lot some help regarding this and some links of where i can get more help either in video or reading format to become better using this amazing tool. I am a beginner so any help is greatly appreciated.
    Thank you in advance.



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    Peter Louloudis
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    #CognosAnalyticswithWatson


  • 2.  RE: Some Reporting help to a newbie
    Best Answer

    Posted 02/09/22 05:14 PM

    I wonder if the data module relative time functionality could be helpful.  It has built-in functionality including ones to determine the same month last year and the same month to date last year.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=modules-relative-date-analysis



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    IAN HENDERSON
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  • 3.  RE: Some Reporting help to a newbie

    Posted 02/18/22 02:13 AM
    Thank you very much the tutorial helped a lot and i made a few changes to gather some data regarding what i needed.

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    Peter Louloudis
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