Example - Drill Through to a Hidden Report from a Report Studio Report

You want to set up a drill-through link from an employee satisfaction report created in IBM® Cognos® Report Studio to a hidden list report about compensation, also created in Report Studio.

The source report (Employee Satisfaction 2012) is based on the package GO Data Warehouse (analysis) which is modeled on a DMR data source. The target report (Compensation (hidden)) is based on the package GO Data Warehouse (query). You set up this drill-through connection from within Report Studio (report-based, or authored drill through) because you do not want to make a report about compensation available for drill through from any source report in the package. The target report is already hidden in the portal, so that it is unlikely to be run by anyone who does not use the drill through link.

You must have the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence samples from the deployment zip file IBM_Cognos_DrillThroughSamples installed to follow this exercise, and you must have access to Report Studio.

The Compensation report is a hidden report. You may be able to set whether hidden reports are visible (My Preferences, General tab) and whether you can hide reports. This capability is set by your administrator.