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  • how can create users and permissions in cognos

    vpulender

    • Nov 27th, 2009

    In Cognos Connections we can only able to create Groups,roles and contacts.But if we want to create new users we have to log on Cognos Access Manager there we can create users andWe can grant the permission based on their requets like for specific Folder or reports..

    swift_s

    • Jun 11th, 2009

    Users and Permissions can be given in Access manager - Administration. Individual users can be created using their names or their Ids (if any) in Access manager and then be given permissions. This tool is loaded when you install Cognos 7.x in your machine.

  • How can I create a dynamic column name in Cognos

    1.Create a calculated column which contains the information that the header is to contain, such as "Report for year 1999" (concatenated text and date to string sub string extraction). 2.Highlight the report, and then right-click. 3.Select Properties, and then click the Headers/Footers tab. 4.Clear the Column Title Header check box. This will remove the headers from your columns. 5.Reinsert the rest...

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    Answered by: moissi

    • Nov 4th, 2007


    1. add a data item to the query(the query on which the report is based)
    2. define an expression which u want to use for the dynamic column label
    3. from the report page click on the column label
    4. from properties pane look for "column label" the default would be "data item label/name" change that to "data item value"
    5. in the same pane change the "data item" property to have the data item that u created for the column label.

    srihari

    • Apr 6th, 2013

    Two ways to used in dynamic columns in Report Studio

    1.Query Calculation
    2.DataItem

    Joseph Thekkath

    • Jan 16th, 2012

    Mgani, How we can create the column headers dynamically using parameter maps. Here is what I am facing, in the data table we have following columns Id, Fact Period And in a Translation Table I have...