Question { IBM, 17315 }

What is difference between drill through and drill down?

Answer

drill through means navigating from one reprt to a
different report like parrent report to child report that
child report give detaild data.
while drill
up/down is done within the same report like detaild data to
summery data.

Question { Wipro, 10582 }

how u provide security to reports??how u provide security to
packages ?

Answer

if u have use cognos tool u can give security through
cognos framwork manager.

Question { IBM, 9138 }

How do you use SUM function in Reportnet?

Answer

tool box u have query calculation that u drg and drop to
the report page, query exprestion it will be open
automatically which one u want to do sum,for
ex:Qty*unitprice

Question { 12066 }

what is the difference between cascading prompt and drill-thru

Answer

cascading prompt it will shows prompt page,
for ex: product range
product category
product

if u select product range it will goes to product category
onece u select that will be goes to product, u select
praticluer product range and product category and product
that results onley shows.

drill through: that will goes to parent to child report.

Question { HCL, 7865 }

how can create a report like if the salary>50,000 display
balance,if salary<50,000 display green?

Answer

use condistional blocks.

Question { Wipro, 9298 }

Why we should go for cognos? when there are so many other
BI(Reporting) tolls in front of us?

Answer

because cognos reporting tool is frindly user.here onley
drg and drop tables.

Question { IBM, 5802 }

what are the joins present in reportnet?which is most
widely used?

Answer

1.inner join
2.outer join
3.cross join
mostly inner join is used in reportnet.