Work in design, structure, or Active Report preview view
IBM® Cognos® Report Studio has three views in which you can author reports: Page Design view, Page Structure view, and Active Report Preview view. Active Report Preview view is available only when you are authoring an IBM Cognos Active Report. You can choose a report authoring view on the View menu or by clicking the view icons in the Explorer bar.
Different options are available in each view, so you often need to use all views. For example, you must use the Page Design and Page Structure views to remove sections in relational reporting.
Page design view
The page design view is the default view in IBM Cognos Report Studio. In this view, you can see what your report will look like after you run it.
Page structure view
The page structure view displays an overview of all of the report objects in your report in a tree structure, which is organized by page.
Active Report preview view
When you are authoring an IBM Cognos Active Report, the Active Report Preview view shows you live data as you format the report.