Options

You can set various options that control the appearance and behaviors of IBM® Cognos® Workspace Advanced (Tools, Options).

Note: You cannot set Cognos Workspace Advanced options when you have opened a widget from a workspace in IBM Cognos Workspace to edit it in Cognos Workspace Advanced.

View Options

Table 1. Descriptions of the options on the View tab of the Options window
Option	Description
Show all hidden dialogs	Shows all dialog boxes where the Show this dialog in the future check box was cleared, such as the Welcome dialog box at startup.
Reuse Cognos Viewer window	Reuses the same IBM Cognos Viewer window when you rerun a report without first closing the window.
Resize Cognos Viewer window	Maximizes the IBM Cognos Viewer window when you run a report.
Enable animation	Animates the appearance of dialog boxes, menus, and panes.
Window startup size	Specifies the size of the Cognos Workspace Advanced window at startup.
Position pane on the right (requires restart)	Moves the content and Properties panes to the right of the work area. This check box is selected by default. For the change to take effect, you must close and then restart Cognos Workspace Advanced.
Show rich tooltips (requires restart)	Specifies whether to show descriptive tooltips when you hover over a button in the toolbar. This check box is selected by default. For the change to take effect, you must close and then restart Cognos Workspace Advanced.
Display report preview	Shows a preview of the report when you open or save a report, within the Open, Save, and Save As dialog boxes.
Start page view	Enables you to start Cognos Workspace Advanced in Design or Preview view. For the change to take effect, you must close and then restart Cognos Workspace Advanced.

Edit Options

Table 2. Descriptions of the options on the Edit tab of the Options window
Option	Description
Automatically populate values lists	When building expressions in the expression editor, automatically shows values when you browse the data of a data item.
Enable drill-up or drill-down links	For data items where drill-up or drill-down is possible, enables drill-up or drill-down links. When you select a data item, it becomes a link that you can click to drill up or down. Also, you can still double-click data items to drill up and down. By default, this option is enabled.
Drop replace on crosstab and chart nodes	Specifies what the existing members are replaced with when you drag a new member onto a report.
Double click on member action	When working with dimensional data, specifies what happens when you double-click a member data item. By default, you drill down or up on the item that you double-click.

Report Options

Table 3. Descriptions of the options on the Report tab of the Options window
Option	Description
Table Style inheritance	When a table style is applied to a list or crosstab, specifies whether new objects inserted in the list or crosstab should inherit the style. For more information, see Applying table styles.
Automatic group and summary behavior for lists	When working with lists, automatically adds an overall aggregate summary in the list footer and a summary for any groups in the list. When grouping a column, automatically makes it the first column in the list.
Automatically create crosstab headers for sets	When adding sets in a crosstab that uses a dimensional data source, automatically adds header labels on new columns and rows. The headers help consumers of the report to understand where the data is in the hierarchy.
Limit on inserted individual members	When working with a dimensional data source, limits the number of child members that are inserted. For example, you specify 3 for this option and in the Source tab you specify the option to insert children when you drag a member to a data container. You then drag the Camping Equipment member to the rows of a crosstab. What you see as rows are the child members Cooking Gear, Tents, and Sleeping Bags, and a row named Others (Camping Equipment) for the remaining child members of Camping Equipment.

Advanced Options

Table 4. Descriptions of the options on the Advanced tab of the Options window
Option	Description
Use operating system clipboard	If Cognos Workspace Advanced is running in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser, uses the Microsoft Windows operating system's clipboard instead of the internal application clipboard. Tip: If Cognos Workspace Advanced is running in the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, the internal application clipboard is always used.
Use legacy chart authoring	Enables you to create new reports using the legacy Report Studio charts instead of the default Cognos Workspace Advanced charts.
Disable previews	When editing properties such as date and number formatting, does not display a sample of the formatting that is applied to data. When this option is not enabled, either sample data or data from your data source is displayed with formatting options applied. Additionally, when in Page Design view, displays a static image for a chart instead of updating the chart with new data.
Override 10.x styles with 8.x styles on new reports	Specifies whether to use the version 8.x report styles by default when creating new reports. For more information about report styles, see Modifying Report and Object Styles.
Enable accessibility (requires restart)	Specifies whether to enable accessibility features in Cognos Workspace Advanced. For the change to take effect, you must close and then restart Cognos Workspace Advanced. For more information about accessibility features, see Accessibility features in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced.
Member display count limit (in source tree)	When working with dimensional data, specifies the maximum number of members that can appear in the Source tab pane before you need to perform a search.