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IBM Cognos 8 Planning

You're reading from  IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847196842
Pages 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

IBM Cognos 8 Planning
Credits
About the Authors
1. Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
2. Preface
1. Planning with IBM Cognos 2. Getting to know IBM Cognos Tools 3. Understanding the Model Development Process 4. Understanding the Analyst Environment 5. Defining Data Structures: D-List 6. Storing Planning Data: D-Cube 7. Moving Planning Data: D-Links 8. Understanding the Contributor Environment 9. Building, Configuring, and Updating the Contributor Application 10. Securing and Controlling Contributor Web Client Template/Application 11. Importing Data into a Contributor Application 12. Working with the Contributor Web Client 13. Reporting Planning Data—Publish and BI Integration 14. Maintaining Analyst Models 15. Maintaining Contributor Applications 16. Maintaining Security Index

Working with the Contributor Web Client

The Contributor Web Client can be accessed by clicking on a web link to the application supplied by an administrator or through IBM Cognos Connection. The ABC Company application has been published as a package to a sub-folder in the Public Folders in IBM Cognos Connection. The e.List item can now be accessed through IBM Cognos Connection, for entering planning data.

Exploring the Contributor Web Client

In this section, we explain how to log on to the Contributor web client, and examine the workflow screen. We also show you how to open an application for entering plan data, and explore the menu bar and its buttons.

To log on to the Contributor web client:

  1. Open IBM Cognos Connection.

  2. Click on Launch.

  3. Click on Contributor .

  4. Click on the ABC Company application.

The Contributor workflow screen appears, as shown in the screenshot below:

The tree and e.List

The tree on the leftmost side of the screen is the e.List for the ABC Company and represents the geographical...

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