Guidelines for creating new dashboard reports
The IBM® Unica® reporting packages for Campaign, Interact, and Marketing Operations include reports that are specially formatted to appear on the IBM® Unica® dashboard. Use the following guidelines to create new dashboard reports in IBM Cognos Report Studio:
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Examine the reference documentation that describes the metadata model and the specifications of the example reports from the report package. It is located in the ProductNameReportPack\cognos8\docs subdirectory in the report package installation directory.
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Save all dashboard reports in the appropriate subdirectory under the main Unica Dashboards folder.
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For Campaign: Unica Dashboards\Campaign
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For Interact: Unica Dashboards\Interact
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For Marketing Operations: Unica Dashboards\Plan. (Plan was the previous name for Marketing Operations.)
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The report must be formatted and sized so it fits properly in a dashboard portlet. See Dashboard report styles in the "Style Guide for the IBM Cognos 8 BI reports" appendix for a description of the formatting you should use.
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Do not include a title in a dashboard report. The portlet it appears in will give the report its title.
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Do not include hyperlinks in a dashboard report.
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Do not include page numbers in a dashboard report.
To create a new dashboard portlet and add the report to it, see Custom portlet types and availability and To prepare the URL from an IBM Cognos dashboard report.
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