Treemap by Category Visualizations. Product: IBM Cognos Active Report Area of Interest: Reporting

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1 Treemap by Category Visualizations Product: IBM Cognos Active Report Area of Interest: Reporting

2 Treemap by Category Visualizations 2 Copyright and Trademarks Licensed Materials - Property of IBM. Copyright IBM Corp IBM, the IBM logo, and Cognos are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at While every attempt has been made to ensure that the information in this document is accurate and complete, some typographical errors or technical inaccuracies may exist. IBM does not accept responsibility for any kind of loss resulting from the use of information contained in this document. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.

3 Treemap by Category Visualizations 3 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION PURPOSE APPLICABILITY ADDING A TREEMAP BY CATEGORY VISUALIZATION TO AN ACTIVE REPORT PROCEDURE... 6

4 Treemap by Category Visualizations 4 1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose This document demonstrates how to add treemap by category extensible visualizations to active reports in Report Studio. 1.2 Applicability To perform the tasks in this document, you must use IBM Cognos Business Intelligence with visualizations imported by the administrator and made available to users.

5 Treemap by Category Visualizations 5 2 Adding a treemap by category visualization to an active report You can add a visualization to an active report to efficiently represent your data. Treemaps show relationships among large numbers of components by using size and color coding in a set of nested rectangles. A treemap by category identifies the level 1 category by color. The sizes of the rectangles represent the values. This is an example of a treemap by category visualization: Before you begin Your administrator must make the visualizations available in the Visualization Gallery. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view visualizations, you must have Microsoft Silverlight 5 installed on your computer. Firefox or ipad users do not

6 Treemap by Category Visualizations 6 need Silverlight. About this task You add data to a visualization by inserting data items in drop zones. Visualizations will not run until all of the required drop zones contain data items. When all the required drop zones contain data items, additional drop zones appear for extra categories or values. You can use extra categories and extra values to filter data or set variables. Extra items are not visible in the visualization. When working with dimensional data sources, if the visualization does not contain a measure against which to plot data, you must provide one. For example, if you add a single member to the values drop zone, such as '2012', the default measure drop zone appears in which you must insert a measure. Attention: The supported properties for a visualization are determined by the visualization definition. 3 Procedure 1. Create a new active report or open an existing active report. 2. From the Toolbox tab, drag a Visualization icon to the work area. 3. From the Visualization Gallery, select the Treemap by category icon and click OK. 4. From the Source tab, drag items to the appropriate location in the data container: a. Under Values, drag an item to Size to define the color of the level 1 rectangles b. Under Categories, drag items to the different levels. Each level represents the category within which the subsequent levels are nested. For example, the levels might be Year, Product Line, and Product Type. 5. Add any active controls that you want and run the report.