Reporting Options for Analysis Services Cubes: Cognos PowerPlay - Page 9June 16, 2003 The completed Cube Properties dialog should appear substantially like that shown in Illustration 42. click for larger image
12. Click OK to accept and apply the settings. The Cube Properties dialog closes, returning us to the PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration window. We see the newly inserted cube, sporting the new name we assigned earlier in the Cube Properties dialog, Warehouse Analysis Services Cube, as depicted in Illustration 43.
Let's perform a test of our new cube by using the Open with Browser "preview" capability afforded us by PPES Administration. The icon for access to this feature is shown in Illustration 44.
13. Click the Open with Browser icon. The browser initializes, and we are taken to the cube presentation, as shown in Illustration 45. (Keep in mind our comments regarding prompted database / other logons, depending upon the level of integration of security. An example would be the appearance of a database login screen at this stage in the simple security scenario. Provide logon credentials to proceed in cases such as this, if applicable).
A successful test is thus indicated. Now that we have established connectivity to the Analysis Services Warehouse cube, we will overview PPWEB reporting from the PPES cube. Reporting via the "zero-footprint" web client that requires only a reasonably current browser (see the documentation for acceptable versions of standard browsers) on the client to access and report from our cube. The procedures in this article are presented using Internet Explorer, but the steps should be quite similar using Netscape. 1. Close Internet Explorer completely. 2. Open Internet Explorer again. 3. Type the following URL into the address field, substituting your server name for MOTHER (my server name) :
4. Click Go, to the right of the URL. The Table of Contents appears as shown in Illustration 46. We see the new Warehouse Analysis Services Cube that we have published, along with the sample cubes that are added in the typical installation of PPES and related applications.
5. Click the Warehouse Analysis Services Cube. 6. Provide database logon credentials, then log on, as applicable, The data from the newly connected Warehouse Analysis Cube appears once again, as shown in Illustration 47.
We can now get into analyzing our data from the browser interface. We can perform all the typical reporting capabilities that are available to us for a proprietary cube in PowerPlay Web, in addition to leveraging several extended capabilities that become available with the Analysis Services cube. Let's take a quick look at navigation in the Cognos PowerPlay Web Explorer interface at this point. 7. Click the Store dimension label in the bottom left of the display. 8. Click Store in the cascading menu that appears. The flyout menu appears, as shown, offering drilldown paths and other functionality, some of which are depicted in Illustration 48.
9. Click USA -> WA on the flyout to drill down to the WA children. |
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