Example - Work with a workspace

Use IBM® Cognos® Workspace to build sophisticated interactive workspaces that facilitate collaborative decision making. You can open workspace widgets in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced to edit them.

In this exercise, you will open a Cognos Workspace widget in Cognos Workspace Advanced to make changes and then view your changes in Cognos Workspace.

You are a report author in the Sample Outdoors Company. You want to create a workspace showing employee training by organization level. You have a report widget that shows some of the information you need, so you decide to customize this widget and create a workspace for future reference.

To perform this exercise, you must have the appropriate licensing and security permissions for this functionality.

Procedure

  1. Open Cognos Workspace:
    1. Start your web browser.
    2. In the address bar, type the URL supplied by your administrator, and then press Enter. The URL looks something like this: http://servername/cognos
  2. In the IBM Cognos Welcome page, click Create a workspace on the web.
  3. Click Create New.
  4. In the Content tab of the Content pane, expand Public Folders, Samples, Models, Go Data Warehouse (analysis), and Cognos Workspace Source Reports. Drag Employee Training Cost to the workspace.
  5. Click the Widget Actions icon Widget Actions icon for the Employee Training widget, and then click Do More. The report widget opens in Cognos Workspace Advanced.
  6. Click the chart body to show the drop zones where you can insert data items.
  7. Delete Course cost in the Default measure (y-axis) drop zone.
  8. In the Content pane, click View Metadata Tree View Metadata Tree icon.
  9. In the Source tab of the Content pane, expand HR (analysis), Employee training, and Employee training fact. Drag Course cost to replace Employee expense type in the Series (primary axis) drop zone.
  10. In HR (analysis), Employee training, expand Organization, Organization, and drag Organization name (level 1) to replace Organization (level 1) in the Categories (x-axis ) drop zone.
  11. Click Done to return to Cognos Workspace. Note your changes to the Employee Training widget.
  12. On the application bar, click the Actions menu icon Actions menu icon, and click Save as.
  13. Click My Folders, and type My Employee Training in the Name text box, and then click Save.

    The final report looks like this:

    A screen capture of the course costs for the different territories.

What to do next

For information about using Cognos Workspace, see the IBM Cognos Workspace User Guide.
Parent topic: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Examples