IBM Cognos Impact Diagram

Use this portlet to display impact diagrams associated with a metric.

When you click a metric in the IBM® Cognos® Custom Diagram or IBM Cognos Metric List portlet, the impact diagram associated with the metric appears in this portlet. You can select other diagrams from the drop-down menu for the portlet.

The diagrams in this portlet are interactive. When you click a metric name, the content of the IBM Cognos History Chart and IBM Cognos Viewer portlets using the same channel is automatically updated. When you position a pointer over a metric icon, a tooltip appears that shows the history chart and the most recent data values associated with the metric.

The following table shows the properties that you can change.

Table 1. Cognos Impact Diagram portlet properties
Property	Description
Title	Specifies the title of the portlet. Select the Use the entry name check box if you want to use the name of a metric associated with the impact diagram as a title. If no title is specified, the portlet name is used by default. You can specify a title for each supported language version of the product. Note: The title does not appear in WebSphere®, WCI, and SAP portals.
Language	Specifies the product language version in which the title appears. You can assign the same title for multiple language versions.
Show title in content area	Shows the title in content area of the portlet. This option is useful when the portal does not show the title bar.
Portlet communication options	Enables communication between this portlet, the IBM Cognos Viewer portlet, and other IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets. When you select the Communicate with other portlets check box, communication between this portlet and other portlets that also have this check box selected is enabled. To set up communication between specific portlets, click Portlets using channel and type the channel name. Only the portlets that share the same channel name can interact. The channel name can contain only letters, numbers, and underscore (_) characters, and must not contain any spaces. For example, sales_reports or AbC are valid channel names.
Image Width	Specifies the image width in pixels. The range is 100 to 2000 pixels.
Image Height	Specifies the image height in pixels. The range is 100 to 2000 pixels.

How To Modify the Properties

To modify the properties for this portlet, click the edit button to open the properties page. If the edit button is disabled or not visible, the administrator did not make these settings available to you. For more information, see Control Access to Portlets.

In the portlet properties page, to reset the default portlet settings, or to return to the settings specified by your administrator, click the reset button Reset icon in the portlet title bar. To exit the properties page without saving the changes, click the return button Return icon or click Cancel.

Tip:

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