The magic of the (Don't print) class

Sometimes you may like to hide some section of a report when running it in Excel/ PDF output format. One way to do this might be to create a render variable based on the ReportOutput() function, and hide the object that way.  Some objects, however don't support a render variable.

You can use  (Don't Print) class to hide any item in a Cognos report. The (Don't Print) class will exclude the item from the output. Here are the steps to take

- Select the object which you want to hide
- click on Classes property under Properties pane
- Select (Don't Print) class under Global Classes list
- Save and run the report

Tip of the day

Comments in an expression in report studio :

#/*Here are the comments*/#

use it to your advantage!

Automatically refreshing a report

Hi!

ever wonder how to automatically refresh a report every ...say 3 seconds?  Just paste this into a HTML item in your report.

<script>

function reloadthispage()

{

t=setTimeout("promptButtonFinish()",3000);

}

reloadthispage();

</script>