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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Most useless line ever in a training manual.

I wanted to know what the difference between a summary and detail filter is, and the only information I have is this:

"When you use a detail filter to filter a report only on detail data items, none of the data items in a detail filter are summary data items."

Grrrrrrr, how helpful!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 10:05 am. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

  1. Blogger Watdefu said:
    12:20 pm  

    Is it something to do with how Cognos describes the type of data?

    Detail = Name, Address, Male / Female
    Measure = Year, premium, claims

    You can summarise measures, but it's difficult to summarise a name. Hence they are different types of data.

  1. Anonymous Anonymous said:
    1:10 am  

    smarty pants :)

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