New Base Samples for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0

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New Base Samples for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0

By Samples Team posted Thu May 13, 2021 09:08 AM

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IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 contains the following new and updated Base Samples:

Get Started

There are two new sample dashboards that were created to help beginners get started with IBM Cognos Analytics:

My first dashboard provides an example dashboard where each element links to a YouTube video that demonstrates how it was created.

Visualization gallery demonstrates the breadth of available visualizations and provides coachmarks that open specific topics in the Learn Pane, providing information about each visualization type.

You will find these two new dashboards under Team content > Samples > * Get started

Dashboards

Team content > Samples > By industry > Industrial manufacturing

Monitor bottle manufacturing: This sample dashboard demonstrates the state of bottle production for a fictional industrial manufacturing company. The dashboard demonstrates map, quadrant, and treemap visualizations, and conditional formatting.

Team content > Samples > By industry > Professional services

Profit analysis: The dashboard displays profit analysis data highlighting the sources of revenue and expenses for a fictional digital marketing company.

Resource utilization summary: The dashboard displays how employee resources are being utilized for a fictional digital marketing company.

Reports

Team content > Samples > By industry > Professional services

Annual timesheet billing summary: The report demonstrates how to assemble a multi-page report using a variety of data containers to display timesheet billing data for a fictional digital marketing company.

Expense detail by vendor: This prompt-based list report displays the details of vendor expenses over a selected period of time for a fictional digital marketing company.

Income statement: This prompt-based report demonstrates a basic Income Statement report using a List data container for a fictional digital marketing company.

Income statement – month and YTD: This prompt-based crosstab report displays monthly year-to-date Income Statement data for a fictional digital marketing company.

Invoice generator: This sample report demonstrates structuring a report to generate formatted invoices in PDF format based on employee timesheet billing data for a fictional digital marketing company.

Revenue detail by customer: This prompt-based report demonstrates customer revenue information using an interactive Data table for a fictional digital marketing company.

Explorations

Team content > Samples > By industry > Professional services

Employee billings exploration: This sample demonstrates the exploration capabilities in the context of a fictional digital marketing company.

Custom Controls

All the existing JavaScript samples have been modified to use uploaded Extensions to supply the JavaScript files.

Team content > Samples > By feature > Custom controls > Extensions

App bar
App bar data
App bar static labels
Auto refresh
NEW! Automatically pass first prompt value to report: This sample report uses a Custom Control on a Prompt Page and JavaScript in an extension to create a hidden prompt and pass the first value of Product Line Code automatically to the report.
Basic button control
Bootstrap button bar
Cascading prompts with multi-select
Cascading prompts with single-select
Clear prompt selections
Collapse regions
Collapse regions and subsections
NEW! Customize prompt text: This sample report uses a Page Module and JavaScript in an extension to style the text in a prompt control.
D3 bar chart
Data store viewer
Date prompt presets
Display all prompt values ignoring user selections
Display user selected prompt values
Events
Google bar chart (Custom Control)
HTML select
HTML slider
HTML submit and cancel buttons
Indexed prompt
Info icon
Limit numeric prompt selection by database value
Limit time between two dates
Limit user selection to two items
List column display
Loading text
Page module
Personal default prompt selections - set selections
Personal default prompt selections - use selections
Prompt API buttons
Prompt validation
Validate prompt values when button pushed
Validate type-in postal code value
Validate type-in product line code

Extensions

The following existing sample extensions were modified to take advantage of the new 11.2.0 user interface, specifically the new Open Menu (AKA “hamburger” menu):

SampleExtensionOpenDashboard_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionOpenFolder_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionOpenReport_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionOpenWebsite_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionOpenPerspective_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionMenuQuicklinks_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionMenuUrlLinks_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionOpenFolderShowHideParent_11_2_0.zip
SampleWelcome_11_2_0.zip
SampleExtensionExcludeDelete_11_2_0.zip

Great Outdoors Data Module

The Great Outdoors Data Module has been modified to add in Time, Time (Shipped date) and Time (close date) tables. Relationships are defined between the Time and Sales tables to aggregate correctly at each leave of time: monthly, quarterly or yearly. The data module has also been changed to include some minor bug fixes.

Audit Samples

The Audit FM model has been updated to include user logon error details. This information is helpful for customers when analyzing the causes of failure.

Themes

The sample Themes have been updated for 11.2.0 due to the new user interface changes:

SampleTheme.zip
SampleThemeBlueGreen.zip
SampleThemeDarkBlue.zip
SampleThemeLight.zip

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