There are new features in IBM® Cognos® Insight version 10.2.2.
For more information about these features, see the IBM Cognos Insight
User Guide in the Cognos Insight product documentation (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVJ22/welcome).
Print entire workspaces
You can now print entire
workspaces at once instead of printing each tab one at a time.
Dynamic values
IBM Cognos Insight now includes dynamic
values, which are widgets that display single members or measures
from a crosstab. For example, if your crosstab displays revenue by
year by product line, you can add a dynamic value to the title of
your workspace tab that displays the total revenue for this year.
Emphasize cells by using conditional formatting
You
can now add conditional styles to IBM Cognos Insight workspaces to
emphasize cells that meet specific conditions.
Support for importing ragged and unbalanced hierarchies
Ragged
and unbalanced hierarchies can now be imported into IBM Cognos Insight.
You can choose to preserve the original structure or adjust it.
In
ragged hierarchies, some levels are missing from the data. For example,
in the following table, the State level is missing in two rows.
Table 1. Example of a ragged
hierarchy before importRegion or country |
State |
City |
USA |
CA |
San Francisco |
USA |
CA |
Los Angeles |
USA |
|
Washington DC |
Vatican City |
|
Vatican City |
In unbalanced hierarchies, leaf members are not all
at the same level. For example, in the following table, some leaf
members are at Level 2, and some leaf members are at Level 3.
Table 2. Example of an unbalanced
hierarchy before importLevel 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
Employee A |
Employee B |
Employee E |
Employee A |
Employee B |
Employee F |
Employee A |
Employee C |
|
Employee A |
Employee D |
|
Undo and redo
You can now reverse and repeat
some actions that you perform on an IBM Cognos Insight workspace.
You
can undo or redo up to 45 actions.
Restriction: You
cannot use the
Undo icon to reverse the following
actions:
- Changing the data model, such as adding or removing members, dimensions,
and cubes.
- Adding or removing comments.
- Running action buttons that execute IBM Cognos TM1® TurboIntegrator (TI) processes.
- Changing calculations.
- Running imports and exports.
- Connecting to an IBM Cognos Express® or IBM Cognos TM1 server.
- Printing, publishing, or sharing.
- Changes to your Cognos Insight
setup or preferences.
- Holding or releasing cells.
Synchronize data
You can now synchronize the
data in an IBM Cognos Insight workspace by widget, by tab,
or by workspace. For example, you could synchronize the data changes
in an explore point on tab A to the data in a crosstab on tab B.
Work with widgets
You can now view a list of
the tabs and widgets in your IBM Cognos Insight workspace. You
can use this list to navigate to specific tabs or widgets and to change
tab or widget settings.
The
Workspace section
is a new part of the content pane. The section lists all of the tabs
and widgets in the current workspace. From the
Workspace pane,
you can perform the following actions:
- Right-click a widget to access a list of commands for the widget.
These commands are the same ones that are available from the Widget
Actions menu.
- Right-click a tab to rename or delete it.
- Click a tab or widget to navigate to that object in the workspace.
Contributor and Reviewer views
Now, when IBM Cognos TM1 administrators connect to Cognos TM1 applications from IBM Cognos Insight,
the contributor and reviewer views can appear with different layouts.
When
application authors create applications in IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler, they can
define separate views for contributors and reviewers. When Cognos TM1 administrators connect to Cognos TM1 from Cognos Insight, they can choose
the view that they want to work with: contributor or reviewer. In Cognos Insight, these views can
appear with different layouts. For example, the contributor view could
display a crosstab with several explore points; whereas, the reviewer
view could display only a chart and crosstab.
These different
layouts can be created in Cognos Insight.
When a Cognos TM1 administrator publishes a workspace back
to Cognos TM1, the view that they are publishing includes
the workspace layout. So if a Cognos TM1 administrator is connected in
the contributor view, that administrator can make changes to the layout
of the workspace and publish it as the contributor view of that application.
For
more information about Contributor and Reviewer views, see the IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler User Guide.
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Captions displayed for current locale
In workspaces
that have different captions for different languages, users now see
only the caption that applies to the locale of IBM Cognos Insight,
which is set in My Preferences.
New data spreading option
IBM Cognos Insight
now includes the repeat leaves method of data spreading.
The repeat
leaves method of data spreading enables you to copy a value to all
leaves of the consolidation or only to those leaves that contain non-zero
values.