TM1 Cube Viewer

Identify TM1

The TM1 data sources that have their connection information configured in the IBM® Cognos® 8 Data Source Connections are provided in the TM1 Datasources list. To select a pre-configured TM1 data source, click Choose a TM1 Datasource and select a TM1 data source from the Datasources list.

To select an existing TM1 data source that is not configured in the IBM Cognos 8 Data Source Connections, click Enter TM1 host and server name. The Administration Host name is the computer on which the IBM Cognos TM1 Admin Server is running. For Administration Host, type the network reachable address of the computer. For the Server Name, type the name of the TM1 server.

Identify cubeview

Click Select a cubeview and then click Select an entry to browse to a cube and select it.

Alternatively, click Type in the cube and view names. Enter the Cube name and the View name to identify the cubeview. Next, click Public or Private to identify the status of the view.

Protocol Selections

Select Use secured sockets protocol if the TM1 Web server uses SSL.

Display Options

Select View, Toolbar, to show the tool bar on the page.

Select Automatic recalculation to automatically update the values on the page when a change occurs or if the portlet is responding to events from another portlet.

Select Show tabs to show tabs on the page.

Select Show titles of dimensions to show the titles associated with a dimension on the page.

Chart Options

Select the chart only, grid only, or grid and chart from the Display mode list. Select 3-Dimensional to show the chart as a 3-dimensional figure. Select Legend to show the legend that corresponds to the display mode.

Select the type of chart from Chart Type list.

Select a color palette from the Chart Palette list.

Callback Options

Select Navigation Viewer selection to enable communication from the Navigation Viewer portlet.

Select Cube Viewer selection to enable communication from the Cube Viewer.

To set up communication between TM1 portlets, type the same channel name for the portlets that you want to interact. TM1 Viewer portlets will listen on the channel name specified in the Listen to Channel and will send to the channel specified in the Send to Channel .

The channel name can contain only letters, numbers, and underscore (_) characters, and must not contain any spaces. For example, Cognos, Cognos_Portlets, or CognosPortlets are valid.

View Options

Select a language from the Language list.

The portlet title defaults to being the name of the viewer, if the option to show a title was chosen for the portal. To customize the title on the portlet, enter a name in Title.

To change the height of the page, enter a value in Height (pixels).