Submitted Questions

  • Displaying a parameter with Cognos in a MS XL spreadsheet

    I have a drill down report that has three parameters passed to it. When the report runs, it can be exported to a .pdf file with those three parameters displayed as text on the top of the first page. They are not column headers, just parameters that are passed to the drill down report. I would like to display them in a Microsoft XL spreadsheet as merely text items in a row of their own, but cannot...

    Anamika Jain

    • Jun 27th, 2014

    You would like to display the information of the parameter you have selected by using paramdisplay() value function etc.

  • Displaying parameter/render variable in MS-XL output

    I have three report filter parameters. They will appear as render variables in a .pdf COGNOS report output as if they were simple text fields serving as report header text. These same three items will not appear if you run the COGNOS report output to a Microsoft XL file. How can I program the report (whether using a render variable or not) to make these parameters appear, not as column headings...

    Sandeep

    • Jun 4th, 2014

    You can use tables and put one parameter in each record.

    Did you mean this?