Charts
You can use IBM® Cognos® Report Studio to create
many chart types, such as column, bar, area, and line charts.
- Current Default Charts and Legacy Charts
IBM Cognos Report Studio has a new default chart technology as of version 10.1.0. - Creating Charts
Before creating charts, review the available chart types to select the best chart for your needs. Also review the chart objects that make up charts. - Chart Types
IBM Cognos Report Studio provides many types of charts for presenting your data in a way that is meaningful for your users. - Convert Charts From One Type to Another
You can convert a chart from one type (for example, a bar chart) to another type (for example, a line chart). - Convert Legacy Charts to Current Default Charts
You can convert charts from the legacy charts to the current default charts. When you convert a legacy chart, select the template that most closely matches your legacy chart in order to preserve as many settings as possible. - Customizing Chart Properties
After you create a chart, you can customize it by changing its properties. - Changing the number of hotspots in a chart
To improve performance, you can limit the number of hotspots that are generated for Report Studio charts. - Create a Drill-up and Drill-down Chart
If you use a dimensionally-modeled data source, you can create a chart that allows you to drill down to lower-level data or drill up to higher-level data. - Example - Creating Drill-through Access in a Legacy Chart
You are a report author at The Sample Outdoors Company, which sells sporting equipment. You are requested to create a chart that shows the revenue for each product line and allows the reader to drill through from the revenue chart to view the product details for any item selected. You create a drill-through report to link two reports containing related information. You can then access related or more detailed information in one report by selecting a value in the chart. You create two reports: a target list report that contains the details for the item and a source report that contains the chart that shows the product line revenue. - Example - Creating and Customizing a Metrics Range Legacy Chart
You are a report author at The Sample Outdoors Company, which sells sporting equipment. You are asked to create a chart that shows revenue compared to planned revenue by quarter by product line. You also want to highlight revenues that were below target. - Adding a Metric Studio Diagram to a Report
You can add IBM Cognos Metric Studio impact or custom diagrams in your reports. Impact diagrams show cause-and-effect relationships between metrics. Custom diagrams allow you to monitor your metrics using a predefined visual representation, such as a process diagram or strategy map.