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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
Languages

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

Entering data into D-Cubes


There are several ways of entering data into a D-Cube. The simplest way is to type the data directly into the cell. But you can also enter data in several other ways: you can copy and paste data from a spreadsheet, you can enter data into a range of cells using the data-entry command function, or you can link data from a source outside of the D-Cube.

Data color conventions

Analyst displays data in a variety of colors. Non-calculating data entry cells display data in blue. Calculated cells display data in black. When you type into a data entry cell, the data first appears in green. When you press Enter, the data turns purple and any calculated data will turn red. When you save the D-Cube, the data that you entered turns blue. These colors represent stages in the way the D-Cube processes data. Green means that the data has been typed. Red means the data has been stored in memory and the D-Cube recalculated. Blue means the data has been stored in the file.

Data entry...

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