IBM Cognos Analytics 11: How To - Open a report from Clipboard

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1) At the bottom left of the welcome screen, select New > Report

Image: 1 - New Report in Cognos 11

2) Select a blank template then click OK.

Image: 2 - Templates - Blank

3) Click the Queries Icon
4) Right Click Report and click Open report from clipboard.

Image: 4.1 - Right click report

Image: 4.2 - Open report from clipboard

5) Using Notepad open one of the .txt report files - this is XML code for the report.
- Within notepad press Control-A to select all the txt
- Then Control-C to copy all the selected text

6) Paste using Control-V the text into the open report from the clipboard

7) Click OK

Image: 6 & 7 - Open report from clipboard

8) The report will now appear in Report Studio.

Image: 8 - Imported Report

9) Click the Save button then Save As.
- Save the report to My Content and give it a name.

Image: 9 - Save report

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