In pages, you can enable sharing of drill-up
and drill-down actions, between reports that are based on a dimensionally
modelled data source. A drill action on an item in one report causes
the same action in an associated report if the report is on the same
page and contains the same item. For example, when you drill down
on the item 2005 in one report, all reports in the page drill down
on the same item and the data for the year 2005 appears in all reports.
This functionality is enabled
using the properties of the IBM® Cognos® Viewer portlet. By default,
drill actions are disabled in a page.
This functionality is
not supported for dashboards with multiple tabs. However, a single
page with drill-up and drill-down actions enabled can be embedded
into a dashboard as one of the tabs.
Procedure
- In IBM Cognos Connection, create a page that contains
the IBM Cognos Viewer portlet for each report that
you want to add to the page.
For more detailed information,
see the steps in Create a Page.
- Configure the IBM Cognos Viewer portlets to display
the reports that you want to add to the page.
In the
portlet properties page, click Select an entry to
select the report you want to display in the portlet.
- In the Set the properties page of
the IBM Cognos Viewer portlets, for the Drill
down and drill up property, select the Communicate
with other portlets on the page check box.
This
property enables communication between all portlets in the page using
the default channel.
For more information, click the Help button
in the portlet.
- If you want to set up communication between only specific
portlets in the page, type the channel name in the box provided.
Only the portlets that share the same channel name can interact.
By specifying the channel name, you have more control over the page.
