Submitted Questions

  • Alias and Reference Shorcuts in Cognos

    We know that Alias never effects if the parent updates where as Reference will. My question is if suppose I took an Alias shortcut for a Query Subject and linking that with parent and if I took a Reference from that query subject what will be the difference for those in performance.

    RemyaG

    • Feb 4th, 2016

    A regular shortcut (Reference) is nothing but a simple reference to another object. Its a soft link. An Alias shortcut is a copy of an existing object and is treated independantly. It is easier ...

    Sai Nandigam

    • Feb 1st, 2016

    Regular shortcut is as reference to the target object. Alias shortcut is like a copy of the original object with completely independent behavior. Alias shortcut is available only for query subjects an...