The layout defines the appearance of the report, including
formatting, style, and design.
About this task
The example report will use a table to control the placement
of report components. A table is a simple formatting tool that lets
you place report objects into a basic layout by inserting objects
such as charts and labels into different cells within the table. Use
the Toolbox feature in Cognos® Report
Studio to add a table to the blank report.
Procedure
- Create a blank report as described in Creating a blank report
from the PowerCube model.
- Click the Toolbox tab.
- In the Toolbox window, select the Table object
and drag the it to the report"s layout.
- In the Insert Table dialog box,
specify values in the Number of rows and Number
of columns fields, and then click OK.
- (Optional) Format the table.
There are a
variety of formatting options available in Report Studio; you might
want to try some of the following simple formatting commands:
- Apply a predefined style to an entire table object by clicking and selecting a style from the Table Styles dialog
box.
- Set only specific attributes for the table by clicking the table
object and selecting settings in the Attributes window
(you can set attributes for cell also).
- Merge cells within the table by selecting the cells and clicking .
- To see how the table can control the report layout, experiment
with adding other report objects such as legends and charts, into
the various cells within the table.
- Click Save to save the updated layout.