Reportnet Interview Questions

Star Schema Groping Is a process of creating shortcut for you selected query subject,dimession masure  and relationship  for easelly understanding between relation between your regural dimession and...

The biggest advantage of star schema groupings is that they make it easier for report authors to build valid reports by avoiding double-counting and misleading associations between dimension data occu...

Whatever BO and other BI tools offer, Cognos 8 can't offer you.
-You will need to learn Cognos 8 to use it if you are coming from BO and other BI tool.

Limitations:1. To access a report in Excel format on a remote server, you must change the hostname portion of the gateway URI from localhost to either the IP address of the computer or the computer na...

The choice of choosing the tool depends on the kind of request you are going to get from the client or end user. If you can expect around 50 to 60 reports in 6 months time and the end user wanted to d...

The choice of choosing the tool depends on the kind of request you are going to get from the client or end user. If you can expect around 50 to 60 reports in 6 months time and the end user wanted to d...

MR Means Master Release, These are Version Names of ReportNet

MR means maintenance release.
MR 1 is relased first and whatever issues or bugs arise in MR1 are fixed and released in MR2

To resolve the problem, replace the cogstartup.xml file with a copy from your backup location.

replace  jar files with latest jar files.where u need to copy is cognos/crn/bin/jar/lib/ext

In Cognos connection portal or framework manager?

Just go to Cognos connection portal and proceed through Inport link. You can easily understand by clicking it.

Do you mean cognos testing?

Dimensional View shows full tree view of dimensions and measures in a cube. Dimension view allows you to summarize, cloak and apex categories in the dimensions included in Powercubes.

For Burst Report:

1. We need to import additionall Burst table i.e burst key, receipent name, email id. into FM.

2. Publish to Reportnet Server

3. Create a report in RS.  then in File menu set the burst options (see DOCS).

The number of records on a page can be restricted using the query explorer option in that specify the max no of rows to be retrieved

Could you please provide a detailed step by step installation and configuration of what ever (any environment) that you have successfully done.
Thank you

You need to do the following for a standard installation process:(1) Verify your system requirements like RAM Minimum: 512 MB, a Web server installed and started(2) Review the ReportNet default settin...

A report that is not part of any request set or any document set is a stand alone report, i.e. the report should not be spawned from any other process. Such a report is regarded as a stand-alone report.

Circular Joins or loops occur when say a table A is joined to table B and table B is joined to table C which is inturn joined to table A. So if the report just needs the columns from table A and table...

Sub-Report:- It means main report is linked with some other report through hyperlink.Drill-through Report:- It means column wise you can drill down not complete report-wise.For example you generate on...

Layout calculations means Page number, Border, Header and footer
Query calculation means simple calculation in reports quantity * cost = Actual Revenue

Burst reporting means sending a single report to multiple reciepients using cognos connection.three types of bursting
1.automatic
2.email addresses
3.directories

In normal circumstances, report users would run reports with their seclection of prompt values and view the output. In a scenario, when the number of users is high and the possible combinations of pro...

Cognos Report Net is answer to adhoc and Production Reporting
Actuate is a Spreadsheet for Creating Customizable Excel-Based Reports.

Drill Through report:----- Drillthrough navigates the summery level informataion to detail level information from report to report.........Master detail report :; Master Details Report Navigates The S...

drill through : dta analysis that goes from OLAP cube in to relational database

master Detail:combine two queries in a single report

yeah thnx.. the datasource goretailers was missing.. i added the datasource in cognos

because your data base is not restored and also goretailer package is not there in deployment folder. Or you have done deployment of your goretailer package properly into the cognos connection under administration folder. i think it will work. if not let me know.

Hamid

The are three versions in reportnet:                      Reportnet1.1mr2   &nbs...

In ReprotNet have 3 versions1) ReportNet 1.02) ReportNet 1.1 MR1, MR23. ReportNet 8.0

cognos8 windows user interface contains frameworkmanager,metric designer,mapmanager and transformer.cognos8 web user inetrface contains cognos connection,report studio,query studio,event studio,analys...