Saturday 31 January 2015

Latest Reportnet Interview Questions and Answers

21. How do we drill through from a powerplay cube to reportnet?
A Setting up drill-through access from PowerPlay Web to ReportNet involves
1.configuring Cognos Series 7 for drill-through access to ReportNet
2.preparing the Transformer model and cube
3.copying the search path of the folder that contains the target report
4.enabling the cube for drill-through access to ReportNet
5.deciding which filters to create in the target report
6 creating the target report
7 disabling the Drill Through Assistant

22. What are versions of reportnet?
In ReprotNet have two vertions
1.ReportNet 1.0
2.ReportNet 1.1 MR1, MR2

23. What is prompt?types of prompts?use of prompts?syntax of prompt?
Prompts act as questions that help users to customize the information in a report to suit their own needs.The different types of Prompt are
1.Value prompt
2.Text Prompt
3.Date prompt
4.Time prompt
Date and time prompt :Using prompts is faster and easier than repeatedly changing the filter.
Cognos Report Studio provides several ways to create prompts. You can
1.use the Build Prompt Page tool
2.build your own prompt and prompt page
3.create a parameter to produce a prompt
4.create a Prompt directly in a report page

24. What is difference between qurry studio and report studio?
1.Query Studio:
1.Used to create Ad-hoc (or) simple reports.
2.It does not provide any pre-defined report templates.
3.It directly displays data (without running the report) when we insert attributes in the report.

2.Report Studio:
1.Used to create complex reports.
2.It provides pre-defined report templates.
3.It does not display the data directly in the report. We need to run the report to display the data.

25. What are components of report studio?
Componenets of Report Studio:
1.Insertable Objects pane.
2.Properties pane.
3.Explorer bar - Conditional Explorer, Query Explorer, Page Explorer.
4.Report Viewer - Workarea, Report Layout Objects.

26. What are necessary tasks to install reportnet software
you need to do the following for a standard installation process:
1.Verify your system requirements like RAM Minimum: 512 MB, a Web server installed and started
2.Review the ReportNet default settings like default ReportNet ports and URI settings.
3.Create the database for the content store which means you must create the database that is used for the content store using either Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or DB2 UDB. ReportNet uses this database to store, organize, and retrieve information.
4.Install ReportNet: Use the installation wizard to select the components you want to install and the location on your computer where you want to install them.
5.Set up the database client for the content store (Oracle and DB2): If you use Oracle or DB2 as the database server for the content store, additional steps are required after you install ReportNet before you can configure ReportNet.you need to go to the 6th step only when installing on UNIX. For Windows above 5 steps are good.
6.Update Your Java Environment: Before you can use the cryptographic operations, such as data encryption and key management, implemented by ReportNet, you must check that the required JAR (Java Archive) files are present in your Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

27. What are components of reportnet?
ReportNet has a three-tier architecture, namely,
1.Web server
2.Applications
3.Data.
The tiers are based on business function, and are typically separated by firewalls. ReportNet user interfaces sit above the tiers.ReportNet user interfaces include
a.Web-based Cognos Connection, Cognos Report Studio, and Query Studio
b. Windows-based Framework Manager

28. How do we provide security in frame work manager for a query subject?
The procedure for providing security for query subject in frame work manager is:
select querysubject -> in properties pane select ->security filters(click on edit)a specify data security wizard appears->click on add groups -> cognosnamesspace(select users and groups wizard opens)

29. I want to display zero when null values coming to report how can I do that?
You can follow this procedure :
1.Lets assume revenue is the field in which we have to display null values as 0.
2.First create a calculated item and
3.Then write the expression of the cal item using If Then Else construct as
4.If (Revenue is null) Then ('0') Else(Revenue)
5.I think u can easily understand this.
6.Now you can see that the null values r displayed as '0' in the calculated item.
Select the data item in which you want to replace null with 0 .Go to Properties pane, Click Data Format, in this put 0 in Missing value Characters.

30. How can i create prompts in report net
Prompts is mean by the end user can be filter the data.
1.you can open the explore bar and added the new prompts page,and enter the new name.
2.you go to tool menu and track prompts button
3.you select prompts and then ok
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